Religion in the Chronicles of Narnia

Introduction

The author of Chronicles of Narnia is claimed by different sectors Orthodox Christianity as the greatest defender of the Christian faith. The writer Lewis Protestant Ulster was an atheist when he arrived at the University of Oxford, but became a Catholic through a fervent JRR Tolkien believer, though he never ceased to be Anglican. Today many consider him the paradigm of evangelical Christianity. For others, however, is the main thinker with many movements that have conservative Catholics. But what was really his theology? How strange to have their books to provoke such enthusiasm in all Readers, no doubt the the literature, both apologetic and fantastic, reflects the master hand of a great writer. As one of the most prestigious critics that exist in our country, Rafael Conte (which has been the main contributor to the cultural supplement of El Pais and ABC), Lewis is one of the most vigorous personalities of the twentieth century literature, which enjoys the respect and prestige unquestionably among the circles and minority readers. “His work for him "Is a human and religious meditation first magnitude." His name is always on the side of the great converts to the faith Christian. Because we must not forget that before becoming one of the largest defenders of historic Christianity, Lewis was an atheist. His conversion was often associated with many other writers who came to Catholicism Roman Britain in the early past, as Chesterton and Waugh, although he was Anglican as TS Eliot and Dorothy Sayers.

As an evangelical theologian and Packer, Lewis's Christianity was a Conservative Anglicans catolizantes trends (Romanists do not), that is something difficult to imagine someone with a background as Protestant as he was. Lewis was born in Ulster in the family of an engineer and a Welsh evangelical Episcopal pastor, whose attended church since childhood.

Religion in the writings of C.S. Lewis

First of all, we must realize that Lewis was not a theologian, nor did theological education. It is not easy to see in his systematic theology. Some of the criticism has received from both the liberal camp and the evangelical fundamentalism, often ignore this fact. In his preface to Essential Christianity, said that his intention is to concentrate on the basic doctrines of Christian faith, regardless of the differences between the two churches. The issues that divide Christians often have to do with points advanced theology or even of ecclesiastical history that should never be treated but for real experts. Such waters are too deep for me in them and I have more need to be helped, that capacity to help. “Thus, in The Problem of Pain, says "every theologian who read these pages”that” easily notice that constitute the work of a layman and an amateur." But although Lewis was not a theologian, theology liked. And like all Christians, had a theology: "As for my own beliefs, there is no any secret, as my uncle Toby, "are written in the Book of Common Prayer, a text that presents Anglican classical Protestant theology, even renovated, in the Calvinistic sense. What I saw was the necessity of translating the Christian doctrine to common ...