I have, from time to time, heard from people who don't think that the Chronicles of Narnia are a Christian allegory. Now, the BBC reports that a letter in which CS Lewis admits that "Narnia is all about Christ" is being put on public display in the UK. Much of my early childhood was profoundly molded by the Chronicles, and the case could be easily made that they led me to my particular expression of Christian spirituality. As more people are exposed to the books through their translation into cinema, I wonder if more children will find their spiritual journeys as profoundly informed by Narnia as my own? The answer: only if some form of Anglicanism or English spirituality survives.
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I have an interest in the English Common Law, how it helps to shape liberty, and how it stands in contrast to Pagan and arbitrary legislated law. Does the peculiar English spirituality lend anything toward undestanding the role of Christians in politics/ethics? Is any of this reflected in Narnia?
By the way, we have started reading the Chronicles to our daughters Micah (6) and Rachael (5). We have finished The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and The Magician's Nephew.
The girls' favorite game is to pretend they are the characters from Wardrobe.
Nathan
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