C.S. Lewis?

Question

Do you think that the lion in the book "the lion the witch and the wardrobe" is a reference to god?

Answer 1

Yes C.S. Lewis was very religious. Although I am not, I love all the Lewis books. Very observant.

Answer 2

People have debated Aslan is an animal metaphor for Jesus. For one, CS Lewis was a devoted Christian, and I've heard that Aslan's the son of a powerful sea god-like figure. But I do believe Aslan is a god of some sort. He IS the God of Narnia, because he created it, sang it into existence, and possibly created some species, I'm not sure, look at Magician's Nephew, it will explain what I'm talking about. And Aslan has quite a few powers: he is all-powerful, the most powerful creature in all Narnia, he can rise from the dead, and breathe life into dead creatures. Plus in The Final Battle, at the end, he is trasform into a pure spirtual creature. Not only that but the land he comes from lasts forever and at the end of the book, it hints that he ascends, like Jesus did. However, I feel Aslan is more like God. However, that is up for debate.

Answer 3

Not god specifically. C.S. Lewis was actually referring to Jesus when he wrote about Aslan. Aslan died willingly in order to save the life of a man who deserved to die. In doing so, death had no hold and Aslan lived again. His resurrection was also witnessed by two women. There are other similarities to the story of christ. Aslan does also make a vague reference to his "Father" as well. This was Lewis' way of sharing the story of christ with the younger generation.

Answer 4

Yes.
C.S. Lewis is revered as one of the 20th Century's great Christian philosophers and all of his fiction is recognized as being a literary exploration of Christian philosophy. As the Chronicles of Narnia progress, the Christian symbolism becomes more overt and in some cases, gracelessly blatant. I state this, not as a slam against Christianity, but as the grown up version of a kid who read ALL of the Chronicles of Narnia, I remember thinking that the later books read too much like the sunday school lessons I had to endure. I did think it was cool, though, to realize that because of Narnia, I knew one word in Turkish, which was "Aslan." In Turkish, that means Lion.

Answer 5

It's a well known fact that Aslan is a reference to Jesus. I read it in the newspaper once and people were against Aslan being in the movie. If you do some research on Google or Yahoo, I'm sure you could get a better explaination!

Answer 6

Yes. The entire Chronicles are an allegory of the Christian faith. From salvation (LWW) to keeping the faith in trials and what life brings (DT) to apocaplyptic fiction (LB), the entire series reflects Lewis's Christian and somewhat universal reconcilationist views. Lewis was an Anglican for a good part of his life, though he wasn't always a Christian. He did believe, however, that God gave people a brain to use for themselves to determine His presence in the universe.

Answer 7

Yes. It just seems so blatantly obvious that Aslan is supposed to be a Christ figure. I don't get how people don't see that.

C.S. Lewis was a Christian and even said he wrote the Narnia books that way.

Answer 8

I Don't thinks so even though i know C.S. Lewis i thought i had read a quote that C.S. Lewis had said it was not portraying Jesus

Answer 9

the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a retelling of the Gospel.


Aslan choose to die to protect Edmund, who was a traitor, and a nasty liar.

but since Aslan was innocent, and he died for another, he came back to life.


You can read about the parallels at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion%2C_the_Witch%2C_and_the_Wardrobe

in the COMMENTARY section.

Answer 10

Yes. There are so many similarities to the sacrifice of Jesus and the sacrifice of Aslan. C.S.Lewis' books in the Chronicles of Narnia are all like this. There are lessons in all of them. They are very popular Christian reading material. Read them all. You will like them. They are all very well written.