prixmium | (Reply)

Have you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_The_Chronicles_of_Narnia ?

Lewis apparently denied deliberately setting out to make a Christian allegory or lure. OTOH "Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He [Christ] would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here."

At the end of Dawn Treader:

“It isn’t Narnia, you know,” sobbed Lucy. “It’s you. We shan’t meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?”
“But you shall meet me, dear one,” said Aslan.
“Are—are you there too, Sir?” said Edmund.
“I am,” said Aslan. “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”

Aslan is Jesus, and Lewis is almost saying outright that Narnia is a lure to Christianity.

I agree that the religious stance of Narnia is kind of unorthodox! I think some Christians object for just that reason: too pagan, too universalist. OTOH the parallels between Aslan and Jesus are pretty striking, and in Wardrobe go deeper than just the sacrifice. The Witch claims Edmunder under the Deep Magic/Old Law, which is written on the Stone Table, and Aslan agrees. He sacrifices himself, but that breaks the Stone Table, and brings a Deeper Magic... it's very supercessionist: Jesus replacing the Law of Moses's stone tablets. And then of course we get a form of Revelation/Apocalypse in The Last Battle, complete with Antichrist (anti-Aslan), though again unorthodox in ways.

'barbarian' is from the Greeks.