Chronicles of Narnia
Hosts: Doug Sharp and Rich Geer
These beloved tales written by Christian apologist C. S. Lewis were favorites of my children and contain within them some parallels with the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Ark Encounter has had the Logos Theater perform two of the famous stories at their venue, The Horse and His Boy, and the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe. This winter, they are bringing Prince Caspian to the theater.
Narnia is a parallel universe that is filled with talking creatures such as centaurs, fauns, satyrs, and minotaurs, borrowed from ancient mythology. Though each of these interconnected tales are well-written works of fantasy and captivating adventure, I have been a little uncomfortable with the potential danger of taking the mythological universe introduced by C. S. Lewis being taken too seriously to the point where some readers begin to live in a world of fantasy and magic. This is reflected in a lot of the on-line role-playing games where the players accumulate preternatural powers, multiple lives, fighting dragons, witches, beasts and armies in an ugly, hostile world. I think that The Lord of the Rings departed from the gospel parallel too much, and Harry Potter removed it entirely. This is a progression that I think is a danger that leads to people desiring the world of magic and the occult. Unless the true nature of Jesus Christ is understood, people’s desire for the supernatural is filled with the fake evil substitute.
Evolutionists have speculated that there are parallel universes, and it is ours that got lucky enough to produce life and civilization. The evolution world is a fantasy world where a godless power of scientific laws rules.
I think that these stories are harmless only if the reader and children are taught the genuine gospel story and the difference between that and what is represented in Lewis’s fantasy world.
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