纳尼亚中的宗教内涵Religion in Narnia.docVIP

Religion in The Chronicles of Narnia Contents [hide] 1 Christian parallels 2 Paganism 3 Religious and secular reception 4 See also 5 Notes 6 External links [edit]Christian parallels Specific Christian parallels may be found in the entries for individual books and characters. C.S. Lewis was an adult convert to Christianity and had previously authored some works on Christian apologetics and fiction with Christian themes. However, he did not originally set out to incorporate Christian theological concepts into his Narnia stories; it is something that occurred as he wrote them. As he wrote in Of Other Worlds: Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument, then collected information about child psychology and decided what age group I’d write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out allegories to embody them. This is all pure moonshine. I couldn’t write in that way. It all began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. At first there wasnt anything Christian about them; that element pushed itself in of its own accord. Lewis, an expert on the subject of allegory[1] and the author of The Allegory of Love, maintained that the books were not allegory, and preferred to call the Christian aspects of them suppositional. This indicates Lewis view of Narnia as a fictional parallel universe. As Lewis wrote in a letter to a Mrs Hook in December 1958: If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair [a character in The Pilgrims Progress] represents despair, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality, however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia, and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours? This is not allegory