Reading the entirety of the Narnia series in 'chronological' order is a good idea.

The 'history' of Narnia incorporates themes and ideas which 'borrow' from many non-Christian traditions, but it's got an overlying Christian temporal and spiritual 'hierarchy' which is expressed quite clearly in a lot of examples.

(It's obvious what Lewis had in mind; the same thing as a lot of 'non-clergy' Christian pedagogues in the past.)

A lot of people either end up missing this theme entirely, or being aware of it but being more a fan of the non-Christian elements.

Maybe he is being posthumously punished for marrying a Jewish Communist towards the end of his life. Fittingly ironic isn't it?

Joy Davidman Gresham

Lesson: Stay away from the tribe.

Why is it that any goy who marries a Jewess always turns out to be a pussy?*+ The stereotype of the Jewish woman is true, it seems.

*CS Lewis, Woody Guthrie, Howard Dean, Kurt Russell, Karl Jaspers, some of the Wehrmacht toffs whose names I can't remember, et al.
+ My definition of 'pussy' includes men who allow their kids to be turned into kikes by the mother.

Conversion unleashed creative powers that made Lewis a celebrated champion of orthodox Christian belief. Bryan Stone of Boston University's divinity school thinks Lewis has few rivals as an intelligent and serious exponent of Christianity with broad popular appeal. He expects that Disney's movie will draw new readers to the explicitly religious books as well as to the Narnia tales, with their Christian undertones.

While Narnia appeals to believers and nonbelievers alike, reactions to Lewis as a religious thinker often depend on the beholder's attitude: The author's ecumenical but strongly traditional form of Christianity attracts some and repels others.

Alan Jacobs of Wheaton College in Illinois observes that ``Lewis inspires really extraordinary levels of devotion. He can also inspire extraordinary levels of hostility'' from the likes of fantasy author Philip Pullman, whose works are often regarded as anti-Christian.

Meanwhile, Narnia fans are extraordinarily defensive. Jacobs says he has been greeted with harsh reactions from some fellow evangelicals because his ``The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis'' (HarperSanFrancisco) raises questions about ``saint Jack.''

J. Stanley Mattson of the C.S. Lewis Foundation recalls a liberal British priest telling him: ``You realize, Lewis was the most hated man in Cambridge.'' Yet a nonreligious professor remembered Lewis as ``one of the most delightful men here.''

Today, Americans are more interested in Lewis than his fellow Britons are.

It's telling that Jacobs' college, not Oxford or Cambridge, sponsors a study center devoted to Lewis and his friends, while Mattson's California-based foundation bought Lewis' Oxford home for a shrine and sponsors Oxford and Cambridge seminars about him.

Why?

``The English side has become so secularized. ... They're just not interested in the subject,'' says Episcopal priest Clair McPherson, who is delivering Lewis lectures at New York's Trinity Church.

Likewise, many mainline Protestants have moved beyond Lewis' robustly conservative brand of belief, Jacobs says, so excitement about Lewis' Christian books ``is largely a function of the evangelical and conservative Catholic worlds. But those are big worlds.''

Admirers appreciate Lewis' skill with rational arguments on behalf of the faith, but Jacobs thinks his greater achievement is in ``making holiness and the Christian life attractive, beautiful and radiant'' both for adults and for the delighted youngsters who explore Narnia.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/12/03/f4.rel.lewis.1203.p1.php

The non-fiction works of C.S. Lewish are usually neglected because of the formidable status of the Narnia series. I recommend "The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis for its critique of relativism, psychology, and Dewey style education.

The "four loves" is good. About as tolerable a book on "love" as has ever been written by a man.

This hag wants to make "her" witch an evil Aryan.... Yet another Jewish ploy to ram into the goymind set that Aryan = Evil

"Also, the children are second world war children and their father is away fighting Nazis. I thought it was important, since she is the epitome of all evil and the ultimate white supremacist, that my witch looked Aryan. I thought it was interesting to give the world a really super white villain for a change."

Kikes sure do have the Midas touch don't they? Everything organic they touch, they metalize, monetize, and render inert, lifeless, and cold.