XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: bree@bree.com   
      
   On 6 Oct 2005 09:15:09 GMT, Siwel Naph  wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> I read "Mere Christianity" once, a long time ago, but I think that   
   >>>> Lewis managed to communicate Christianity better in his fiction than   
   >>>> in his overtly theological works.   
   >>>   
   >>>Both would have been banned and/or burned at one time.   
   >>   
   >> And possibly have been. But what has that to do with your wardrobe   
   >> land?   
   >   
   >I thought it would be obvious. M.C. does not support or oppose freedom of   
   >speech and conscience. It is silent again, while remaining eloquent on   
   >whether Christ's miracles literally happened.   
   >   
   >>>> For what it's worth, he did write a book on the kind of subject   
   >>>> suggested by this thread -- "The great divorce".   
   >>>>   
   >>>> So perhaps if we want to get real, we should be discussing that.   
   >>>   
   >>>Discussing an allegory is getting real?   
   >>   
   >> As real as discussing your imaginary land beyond the wardrobes, and in   
   >> fact more real, because it's based on Lewis's own idea of "mere   
   >> Christianity", and not ideas of "mere Christianity" that others may   
   >> attribute to him.   
   >   
   >But the discussion of G.D. would again be conducted by interpreters of   
   >Lewis, not Lewis himself. No-one's told me yet whether they think M.C.   
   >dove underground with Constantine and re-emerged with the Quakers. And   
   >was St Paul a M.C.?   
      
      
   I suppose you're being ironic here. :-) But imo we do need to be a little   
   careful of setting up 'MC' as a system or denomination of its own,   
   competing with the real denominations it's based on.   
      
      
   Bree   
      
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