Live Like A Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis's Chronicles

by Joe Rigney

“He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is only enjoyed by children is a bad children’s story.”13 Or again, “it is certainly my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.”

Right this minute, we are headed somewhere, and sooner or later, we are bound to end up there. Edmund shows us that we might not like the destination at the end of our road.

The proper term for this type of reductionism is “nothing-buttery” since everything that we can see and know is “nothing but” a mixture of matter in motion.