Quote of the Day

The Narnia stories reveal more about Jack's personal religion than any of his theological books, because he wrote them more from the heart than from the head. The character of Aslan is his supreme achievement, the apex, as Paul Ford puts it, "of his literary, mythopoeic, and apologetic gifts." Bede Griffiths has eloquently expressed this point: "The figure of Aslan tell us more of how Lewis understood the nature of God than anything else he wrote. It has all the hidden power and majesty and awesomeness which Lewis associated with God, but also all the glory and the tenderness and even the humor which he believed belonged to him, so that children could run up to him and throw their arms around him and kiss him. There is nothing of 'dark imagination' or fear of devils and hell in this. It is 'mere Christianity.'"

No wonder that my little stepdaughter, after she had read all the Narnia stories, cried bitterly, saying, "I don't want to go on living in this world. I want to live in Narnia - with Aslan."

- from Jack: A Life of CS Lewis