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As you begi your journey into Narnia through reading C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe we will be providing complementary essays that will deepen your experience. Some of these readings will be helpful for adults, or books club discussions, while other readings will be more helpful for parents when answering questions children might ask.
Jerram Barrs wrote Echoes of Eden in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Jerram Barrs:
In his Narnia books, Lewis very intentionally set out to tell the Christian story but not in such a way that those who were ignorant of or resistant to it would find it thrust in their faces. He wanted to capture the imaginations of children and touch their hearts just as he had been captured by the fantastic tales he had read when he was young. As an avid student of the Gospels, Lewis also knew that Jesus himself told wonderful stories which he used to communicate truth indirectly to people who, for all sorts of reasons, would no longer listen to straightforward presentations of it. Lewis wanted his stories, like the myths and fairy stories he loved, to reflect the underlying truths of reality but to do so even more deliberately. In fact, his goal was to ensure that his stories were full of “echoes of Eden.”
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