Saturday, February 21, 2009

A charge of incoherence against The Chronicles of Narnia

Hat tip: Jim Lippard. I think I'll let other people take a crack at this one before I weigh in.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd recommend this fellow read "Planet Narnia" by Michael Ward. Most of his complaints about 'moral incoherence' should be answered.

Aside from not understanding Tolkien either (failing to grasp Arwen and Aragorn... I doubt he's ever read the Silmarillion), the only point worth discussing is the similarity between Christ and Aslan, and since Aslan doesn't have the 'fully God'/'fully Man' theological backing, it is easier to find faults in logic (morality?). But again, he doesn't really understand what Lewis was getting at. (A shorter alternative is to read Lewis's "On Stories" essay).
-SK

Anonymous said...

Actually, I'll give him a break since Ward's book (which was ground breaking) wasn't published till 2008.
-SK