In a lesser issue, I also find Lewis's theology abhorrent since I feel that if the Christian God is a god of love, then everyone should be saved, and the condemnation of so many beings at the end of LB strikes me as the most hideously immoral action in the entire series, and I find it very awkward to write about a supposedly 'good' deity figure who could perform such an action and consider it righteous. But that's a separate problem and is not really related to my main reluctance to equate Aslan to Jesus, since according to the book of Revelation, Jesus is going to be just as immoral in the Christian apocalypse.
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I always thought that the 'coming of spring' in LWW was actually an acceleration: winter went from perpetual, like, December 15th to choose a random date, to speeding up to Christmas and racing forward until spring. Christmas happened on Christmas, but time sped up so that it was only a short time until spring. But that's just my thought.
Whereas I'd always figured that Jadis didn't stop the progress of time; she just completely mucked up the weather and magically blocked Father Christmas. There isn't enough evidence to disprove either theory. *grin*
"Suppose there were a Narnian world and it, like ours, needed redemption. What kind of incarnation and Passion might Christ be supposed to undergo there?"
And here you see the crux of my problem: because I do not believe that our world needed (or got) redemption, I find it difficult to take that belief in Christ as an objective reality and then apply it to the subjective reality of a fantasy world... but I find it perfectly easy to believe in a fantasy god who dies and is resurrected. Furthermore, and I realize this is a minor quibble, I don't see how Aslan dying specifically for Edmund is meant to redeem an entire world, especially when Narnia didn't seem to need spiritual redeeming but rather physical liberation from a temporal tyrant. (And also when nobody in Narnia seems to have any interest in bringing the worship of Aslan and tales of his death and rebirth to other lands in later books.) So again, that particular Aslan=Jesus link doesn't jump out at me, nor particularly convince me once pointed out.
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I always thought that the 'coming of spring' in LWW was actually an acceleration: winter went from perpetual, like, December 15th to choose a random date, to speeding up to Christmas and racing forward until spring. Christmas happened on Christmas, but time sped up so that it was only a short time until spring. But that's just my thought.
Whereas I'd always figured that Jadis didn't stop the progress of time; she just completely mucked up the weather and magically blocked Father Christmas. There isn't enough evidence to disprove either theory. *grin*
"Suppose there were a Narnian world and it, like ours, needed redemption. What kind of incarnation and Passion might Christ be supposed to undergo there?"
And here you see the crux of my problem: because I do not believe that our world needed (or got) redemption, I find it difficult to take that belief in Christ as an objective reality and then apply it to the subjective reality of a fantasy world... but I find it perfectly easy to believe in a fantasy god who dies and is resurrected. Furthermore, and I realize this is a minor quibble, I don't see how Aslan dying specifically for Edmund is meant to redeem an entire world, especially when Narnia didn't seem to need spiritual redeeming but rather physical liberation from a temporal tyrant. (And also when nobody in Narnia seems to have any interest in bringing the worship of Aslan and tales of his death and rebirth to other lands in later books.) So again, that particular Aslan=Jesus link doesn't jump out at me, nor particularly convince me once pointed out.