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   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   westprog wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "Mike Schilling"  wrote in message   
   > news:zH6Bf.14817$Jd.8043@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...   
   >>   
   >> "Derek Broughton"  wrote in message   
   >> news:j67fa3-rlc.ln1@news.pointerstop.ca...   
   >> > John W. Kennedy wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >>   
   >> >> It's not really an allegory. Aslan isn't a /symbol/ of Christ; within   
   >> >> the fictional story, he literally /is/ Christ.   
   >> >>   
   >> > Oooh, that annoys me.   
   >> >   
   >> > Of course, he's not _literally_ Christ.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, Aslan is literally Christ.   
   >   
   > Lewis makes it very, very clear in the later books that Aslan is really   
   > Christ. Gandalf, though he dies and rises again, clearly _isn't_ Christ.   
   > (He isn't an allegory of Christ either).   
      
   Lewis makes it very, very clear that Aslan is a representation of Christ.   
   That character in a book is in no way capable of saving _my_ soul.   
   >   
   >> > That would be a form of blasphemy.   
   >   
   >> Why?  If Christ can incarnate as a human here, why not as a lion in   
   > Narnia?   
   >   
   > And why can't Lewis blaspheme, if that's what someone thinks he did? If   
   > portraying Christ as a talking lion is blasphemy, that's what he did.   
      
   He can, but I don't believe he would, intentionally.  (btw, "portraying"   
   Christ as a talking lion is allegory).   
   --   
   derek   
      
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