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   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   John W. Kennedy wrote:   
      
   > Derek Broughton wrote:   
   >> Mike Schilling wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "Derek Broughton"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:g7gfa3-g5e.ln1@news.pointerstop.ca...   
   >>>>> Yes, Aslan is literally Christ.   
   >>>> Sorry, but he definitely isn't.   
   >>> Are you looking for an argument? :-)   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Well, duh! :-)   
   >>>>>> That would be a form of blasphemy.   
   >>>>> Why?  If Christ can incarnate as a human here, why not as a lion in   
   >>>>> Narnia?   
   >>>> Well, ask a cross-section of Christian theologians whether, if there is   
   >>>> intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, if it's possible that they   
   >>>> can   
   >>>> have been "saved".  If so, ask if Christ could have appeared to them.   
   >>> Why ask them?  The question is how Lewis would (for the purpose of these   
   >>> stories) answer that question.   
   >>   
   >> No, that's not the question.  I have no doubt that Lewis (and Tolkien)   
   >> dislike the concept of allegory, and perhaps they do understand it   
   >> differently than I do.   
   >   
   > Lewis most assuredly did not "dislike the concept of allegory".   
      
   my bad: "...as attached to these specific works".  Tolkien did, indeed say   
   something more general about allegory.   
      
   --   
   derek   
      
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