Waiting for edit since private message.thegoldenchesspiece wrote:YES, The Pilgrim's Progress two to three times and it is an amazing allegory and well written, although i believe it was written by John Bunyan... Speaking of whom, also wrote The Holy War, another extremely well written allegory. Definitely a must-read.
Well, the thing is, it isn't.thegoldenchesspiece wrote:I said that Narnia was an allegory didn't I? I meant the series: The Magicians Nephew through to The Last Battle.
In an allegory, there is a one to one correpondence between features of the story and sth you are really talking about, usually in the real world.
Sorry.Ariel.of.Narnia wrote:(Discussion on the definition of allegory and such should be moved to a more appropriate thread or to PMs, please, so as not to gum up this thread.)
Juvenile's anyway just a convenient label for librarians. And book stores.Ariel.of.Narnia wrote:I've never grown out of juvenile fiction, so that bit was never an issue for me. I actually listened to the Focus on the Family audio dramatizations before I read the book (a friend forced me to take her CDs home and give them a listen in the summer of 2005; I acquired the books about a week and a half before LWW came out in theaters). So I guess I kept listening because I was interested in the adventures.
Well said, I might be shy of speaking of spirituality, but I agree.Ariel.of.Narnia wrote:"[In your world,] I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there." ~ Aslan While I may not have met Aslan face to face in his fictional, leonine glory in a fictional world of wonders, I, as a reader of fiction, have come to know him, and thus have also seen Christ at a different angle and through the veil of familiarity. And that, my friends, is the reason I love Narnia.
One more thing, it may well have helped to prepare me to stay true to my first reading of the Eucharist : Real Presence.
Why should Christians in the Real World have less close contact with Christ than fictional characters in Narnia?