C.S. Lewis: An Introduction to the Wonderful World of Narnia

This study has one foot in this world and one foot in Narnia. How did C. S. Lewis arrive at Narnia, and what did he find when he got there? First it listens to how Lewis described his conversion to Christianity. This involved a special definition of Romanticism, which discovered that the Gospel is a “true myth.” It could work on us as a myth does, but it really happened. The price Lewis had to pay, he writes, was to “keep alive in myself the desire for my true country.” Second it explores how Lewis intends to arouse that desire in us, his readers. The genre of Narnia is not allegory, it is “supposal literature” that shows what cannot be explained. Of the many things The Chronicles can show us, we focus here on the character of Aslan that Mr. Beaver explains best. “Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”