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   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Mike Schilling wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "Derek Broughton"  wrote in message   
   > news:4tpha3-kcd.ln1@news.pointerstop.ca...   
   >> Mike Schilling wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 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.  All I have to go on is current common usage and   
   >> dictionary definitions.  The point is that _I_ cannot accept Aslan _as_   
   >> Christ, and there is plenty of considered theological opinion to back   
   >> that   
   >> up.  It's not the only valid stance, but just because Lewis refused to   
   >> call   
   >> LWW allegory, doesn't mean I have to accept it.   
   >   
   > If what you're saying is that, while Lewis intended to depict Christ on   
   > another world, but you can't accept that except as allegory, I don't thing   
   > we have any real disagreement.   
      
   That's definitely what I'm saying.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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