The gospel according to Lewis. (Fantasia).(Christianity in C.S. Lewis' 'The Chronicles of Narnia')(Critical Essay)
American Prospect, The, February, 2002 by Nelson, Michael
LAST JUNE, BEFORE HOBBITS and Harry Potter began crowding out all other arts coverage, The New York Times ran a front-page story about The Chronicles of Narnia, the seven-volume series of children's fantasy books written by the English novelist C.S. Lewis in the 1950s. The article was called "Marketing `Narnia' without a Christian Lion"--and apparently the headline was as far as either Andrew Greeley or Charles Colson got before throwing down their newspapers in disgust.
Greeley (who is a gadfly sociologist, priest, and romance novelist) and Colson (the famously ...
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