Past Watchful Dragons: The Origin, Interpretation, and Appreciation of the Chronicles of Narnia
Overview
C.S. Lewis said about the Chronicles of Narnia, “I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralyzed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices, almost as if it were something medical. But supposing that by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stained-glass and Sunday school associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency? Could one not steal past those watchful dragons?”
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Key Features
- Analyzes how Lewis used his fiction to express the core of the Christian religion
- Explains how Lewis felt the Narnia books eliminated inhibitions a child might feel regarding religion
- Supplies fresh insights into the difference between obligation to God and truly loving him
- Title: Past Watchful Dragons: The Narnian Chronicles of C. S. Lewis
- Author: Walter Hooper
- Series: C. S. Lewis Studies
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 156
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963 › Chronicles of Narnia; Children › Books and reading--Great Britain--History--20th century; Children’s stories, English › History and criticism
- ISBNs: 9781556355486, 1556355483
- Resource ID: LLS:WTCHFLDRGNSCNRN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T04:30:09Z