The Narnia stories endure primarily because they are delightful stories, but in hindsight I see that part of the delight\u2014part of what made the characters so engaging and the adventures so riveting\u2014flows from Lewis\u2019 understanding of human character. The adventures rivet because they are so consequential for the adventurers: not only their physical lives but their moral character and indeed their eternal destinies hang in the balance. The characters engage most profoundly not when good characters battle evil ones, but when good and evil war within the persons themselves.<\/p>\n
In Narnia we find embodied the baffling mystery of the human condition\u2014the gospel truth of our genuine freedom and desperate need. In Narnia we learn that we cannot save ourselves, but we can accept a savior. Above all, in Lewis\u2019s stories we find an image of a king\u2014not safe but good, not tame but beautiful. As our children come to love Aslan, may they thereby learn better to love the true King.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n "#Stories<\/a> invite #selfreflection<\/a>\u2014but indirectly. They help us see #ourselves<\/a> more clearly by bypassing self-exonerating #justifications<\/a>." @CTmagazine<\/a> @earthandaltar<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/7hWVXNY17E<\/a><\/p>\n — Midwest Augustinians (@mwaugustinians) September 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n