Of course it is supposed to be a Christian allegory. But the Christians don't have a monopoly on the elements of the story.
I have no objection to expressly Christian writing. There's Dante and Milton to start with, and Donne and Herbert and Herrick and Marvell, Chaucer too, and if my old Shakespeare teacher DW Robertson, or one his acolytes was right, Shakespeare (er, Lord Bacon, Baron Verulam, or maybe the Earl of Oxford), although I don't believe it about Shakespeare, whom I think was no more religious than respectibility required.
I like Lewis' fellow Inkling Charles Williams even better than Lewis, and Willaims is way more Christian than Lewis.
Has anyone ever noticed that there is no religion in Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings? I mean, The Silmarillion tells a rather silly creation story that plays no role in the Hobbitt or the LotR, but none of the peoples in the LotR has any religions, priests, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, or whathaveyou. Apparently the loony right is big into The Return of The King, but the elements of the story are only rather loosely Christian.
--- Liza Featherstone <lfeather at panix.com> wrote:
>
>
> To all who have pointed out that resurrections
> appear in non-CHristian
> stories: yes of course, but...the Narnia movie
> (based on the book by
> Christian writer Lewis) contains the following New
> Testament events in the
> exact same order that they appear in the NT:
> messianic figure's return
> which is supposed to save everybody, betrayal,
> forgiveness, voluntary
> self-sacrifice on the part of said messianic dude
> (in order to SAVE)
> others, his death at the hands of evil-doers, two
> female mourners
> attending the body, a resurrection (followed by
> springtime). it is
> impossible to argue that this is not supposed to be
> a christian allegory.
> I'm not saying there are not many other ways to
> enjoy it. I myself love it
> because it's about the secret lives kids have, that
> adults don't know
> anything about (or like the professor in the movie,
> may have some idea, or
> curiosity/sympathy, but can't access). And I agree
> the magic is all
> wonderfully pagan, as are the groovy centaurs and
> fauns. But there is no
> doubt that Jesus is Lewis's major inspiration here,
> and the film is quite
> faithful to that.
>
> Liza
>
>
> > --- andie nachgeborenen
> > <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The dying and resurrected god is the staple myth
> of
> >> a
> >> zillion religions, Isis and Osiris come
> immediately
> >> to
> >> mind. The Druids did this too, with the King
> Stag.
> >> Joseph Campbell (Hero With A Thousand Faces)
> >
>
> >
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