The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe question

...A better question might be, did anyone MISS the biblical imagery in this book? Lewis was quite talented but not exactly subtle.

It's no accident that a lion (Aslan is Turkish for 'lion') is the Christ-character. Look at how this story portrays sin through Edmund and the Queen. There's a lot going on here...

There is actually a book about this: A family guide to Narnia. Biblical truths in C.S. Lewis's 'The Chronicles of Narnia'. by Christin Ditchfield.
ISBN:1-58134-515-1
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

It goes through all the books, explaining and stuff. Also, if you look at Lewis's other books it becomes apparent that he was definitely a Christian.

The abovementioned book is well worth a read if you're interested in this.

There's actually a book that you can buy (mostly seen at Christian book stores) that show you that the author was very a cery Christian man, that did write the book based on thr bible. It's actually very interesting.

Jadis = Judas?

Ernest wrote: "I couldn't help but notice the sacrifice of Aslan for Edmund's infraction. It refelcts Christ's sacrifice for a broken world"

Read "The Lion's World" by Rowan Williams (recently retired Archbishop of Canterbury, now Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge).

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

ISBN 9780281068951

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Lewis was very much a Christian. (He wrote a book on the subject of his faith, "Mere Christianity.") Christian imagery abounds in the Chronicals of Narnia.

Ernest wrote: "I couldn't help but notice the sacrifice of Aslan for Edmund's infraction. It refelcts Christ's sacrifice for a broken world"

Totally true. I love The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and I think it's incredible how C.S. Lewis puts the powerful story of Christ's sacrifice at the cross to save us from the eternal torment of Hell into the amazing, magical tale of a frozen world waiting for the light of Spring to shine down on it and save it from the cruel White Witch who keeps the land of Narnia in a forever freeze.

this is absolutely true. Lewis was a Chritian but writing stories similar to the Bible stories was not his intention as his lectors thought. In all his books of The Chronicles of Narnia there is a similarity with the Bible stories. As the first comment says, Aslan's unfair but voluntary death reflects Jusus' sacrifice for the humanity, and the four Pevensie reflect the different kind of people..
If anyone wants to know about the others similarities woth the Bible stories, there is a very interesting book called Finding God in the land of Narnia

Actually, there is a rather large debate among scholars as to whether or not Lewis wrote the series with the intention of it being treated as allegory. My father, a theologian and pastor says that Lewis himself never admitted the work was allegorical, and I think I remember seeing an interview where he explicitly denies the intent to make Narnia an allegorical world. There is no doubt, however, that Lewis was an atheist turned Christian.

C.S. Lewis was a very Christian man. Aslan represents God throughout the whole series. The Narnia chronicles represent aspects of the Bible.