http://afcmin.org/ateam/298/cs-lewiss-nightmare Helping plans come together, one post at a time Sun, 03 May 2015 14:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 http://afcmin.org/ateam/298/cs-lewiss-nightmare/comment-page-1#comment-1310 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:39:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=298#comment-1310 Good point Tyler, we probably could find something like my hypothetical with a little work.
One of my profs at Baylor has a nice piece on this sort of thing at First Things:
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9810/articles/wood.html

]]> http://afcmin.org/ateam/298/cs-lewiss-nightmare/comment-page-1#comment-1309 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:47:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=298#comment-1309 Sigh, I wish it were more of a joke. This is not the message I think that Lewis would appreciate. His point was not to make a thinly-veiled Christ-story that children would like because the animals talked. His point was to “baptize our imaginations” as Robert Johnston says. This kind of merchandising and the reduction of the characters of Narnia to their archetypes take the magic out of Narnia for me. Aslan works as a full character, not just as a Christ-figure. (So does Aragorn, so does Tom Joad, etc.) Yes, I appreciate that he has characteristics of Jesus, but that's not the only reason I like him so much.
That said, the “I love Narnia” shirt with the crayon drawing of Aslan is pretty rad. Remember WTFWJD? Now that was funny.

]]> http://afcmin.org/ateam/298/cs-lewiss-nightmare/comment-page-1#comment-1308 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:50:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=298#comment-1308 What Would Aslan Do?

]]> http://afcmin.org/ateam/298/cs-lewiss-nightmare/comment-page-1#comment-1307 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:53:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=298#comment-1307 Don't be surprised if someone made that, Micah.

]]> http://afcmin.org/ateam/298/cs-lewiss-nightmare/comment-page-1#comment-1306 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:38:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=298#comment-1306 I agree that it is troubling. I don't agree that there is any validity to the propaganda charge, or that this would be an example of it.
It's cheesy and cheap. Not much different than had they put a collage of scenes from Gibson's Passion and attached a bad title, “The Record of God's Passion for you!”

]]> http://afcmin.org/ateam/298/cs-lewiss-nightmare/comment-page-1#comment-1305 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:18:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=298#comment-1305 Well put.
Not so sure this is the secular film industry's work alone. The Christian industry knows how to sell out just as well. Part of the problem I have with these pieces of merchandise is that many critics of Narnia say it is thinly-veiled Christian propaganda. These covers feed that criticism and, to a certain extent, validates that criticism. Narnia as Lewis wrote it isn't propaganda, but sadly many of my brothers and sisters in Christ treat is like it is.

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