Does the Chronicles of Narnia have Christian influences?!
Question: It's an allegory of Christianity. Aslan is the Christ figure - he is executed as a proxy for the faults of Mankind (as depicted by Edmund) and is resurrected from the dead. In The Last Battle, the world ends and the believers and other good people (interesting, that!) join Aslan in Heaven. Lewis wrote many works about Christianity, both fiction and non.
Tolkien thought his friend ripped off a lot of his ideas. Lord of the Rings was not a Christian allegory, but is a deep work imbued with Catholic theology.
I've concluded that Lewis did not rip off Tolkien. Lewis was simply one of the first to create a fantasy adventure series, of which there are now thousands. All such series owe their debt to Tolkien, and few to Lewis, whose Narnia series is entertaining but relatively superficial. And that, I think is a general limitation of allegory: it is too obvious to those who are familiar with the signs.
Answers: It's an allegory of Christianity. Aslan is the Christ figure - he is executed as a proxy for the faults of Mankind (as depicted by Edmund) and is resurrected from the dead. In The Last Battle, the world ends and the believers and other good people (interesting, that!) join Aslan in Heaven. Lewis wrote many works about Christianity, both fiction and non.
Tolkien thought his friend ripped off a lot of his ideas. Lord of the Rings was not a Christian allegory, but is a deep work imbued with Catholic theology.
I've concluded that Lewis did not rip off Tolkien. Lewis was simply one of the first to create a fantasy adventure series, of which there are now thousands. All such series owe their debt to Tolkien, and few to Lewis, whose Narnia series is entertaining but relatively superficial. And that, I think is a general limitation of allegory: it is too obvious to those who are familiar with the signs.
Yes, they were written by C.S. Lewis. a christian writer, a long time before they were filmed.
Very definitely. C.S. Lewis was a christian.
Where the Lion gives his life for the mistake of the younger human male child, Peter, is a re-enactment of Christ dying on the cross for our sins. As is the resurrection that occurs.
The Breathing "New life" into creatures and humans killed or turned to stone by the Queen of Narnia is also symbolic of Christianity.
Yes it does. C. S. Lewis was a Christian who also wrote Mere Christianity.
You can see similarities in the characters of the Narnia books and people in the bible.
Aslan represents God/Jesus in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. He is the creator of Narnia who comes to that world as a physical being. He sacrifices himself to save other and then comes back to life just as Jesus did.
There are other similarites but that is just one.
That is what it's based on.
http://www.scriptoriumnovum.com/l/narnia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis
http://cslewis.drzeus.net/papers/success...
http://www.balaams-***.com/journal/homem...
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I can't wait for the new movie to come out - Prince Caspian -
http://www.narniaweb.com/
yep. CS Lewis was a devout christian and his entire series of the Chronicles of Narnia have very heavy Christian influences. Its very nearly telling the story of the Bible in a fun and relatable way that children can understand.
CS Lewis was really a brilliant theologist who studied the Bible well. Read the entire series. The Magician's Nephew basically tells the story of Genesis, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is kinda like Exodus. The Last Battle is kinda like Revelations.
Its a fantastic series for atheists and theists alike.