Is it a Christian allegory or isn't it? That is the question hanging over Shrek-director Andrew Adamson's lavish new screen adaptation of C.S. Lewis's beloved children's book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, according to The Australian.
What's more interesting is its notion that The Lion, Witch & Wardrobe is receiving mass Christian appeal because it's Passion story repackaged into a fairytale-- Easier on the eyes than Mel' Gibson's Passion of the Christ, more universal, and more soul felt.
What do you think?
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No matter what anyone says, without a shadow of doubt I would say that "The Chronicles of Narnia" are Christian Allegories as C.S.Lewis was a Christian author who in a letter to a child fan said the these books were all about Christ(he wrote many other fine and unapologetically Chrisitan books).
Throughout the Chronicles he gives clear parallels to Christ (also called the Lion of Judah in the Bible) who, like Aslan, gave his own life as a substitute for us sons (and daughters) of Adam, taking our punishment (Jesus died on a cross but an earthquake cracked the ground and the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom) - Lewis is unmistakenly using Christian true-myths as he allegorizes a Biblical perspective.
In the book chronilogically before LTWATW, "The Magician's Nephew" Aslan is seen creating Narnia by his spoken (or sung) words - this is definitely an allusion to Jesus framing the world by His word (John Chapter One calls Him the Word and the Bible shows Jesus to be God himself involved in speaking creation into existence).
Later on in the "Voyage of Dawn Treader" Aslan appears to the children as a Lamb - the other representation of Christ (the Lamb of God).
There's so much more that show Lewis wrote from a clearly Biblical perspective and to him Alsan is Christ - the one in our world who was much bigger than the stable he was born in (as Lucy says in "The Final Battle".
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