![]() ![]() ![]() Most fairy tales introduce, follow, and largely feature the brave and charming boy or the beautiful and resourceful girl as the lead protagonist of the story, and the story naturally unfolds from that character’s perspective. The Original Myth of Eros (Cupid) & Psyche: Prolegomena While the Narnia series positively oozes with Christian symbolism and biblical allusion, in this, his final work of fiction, Lewis effectually communicates what so many thoroughly orthodox theology textbooks tirelessly aim to do: Till We Have Faces (1956) gently coaxes the reader to come to terms with both the futility of quarreling with the Almighty, and the resplendent beauty of the thrice-holy King. Lewis is a household name in American evangelical circles for his fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia (published 1950-1956) and his nonfiction essays, speeches, and popular apologetics materials such as The Abolition of Man (1943, based on radio addresses from 1941-1944), and Mere Christianity (1952). ![]() Lewis’ Till We Have Faces aloud to my 6th grade Literature class, and I was dismayed to hear one student reflect that he thought the book was profanely irreverent since it discussed other deities and just, well, didn’t seem as biblical as the Narnia series. Now I know in part then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. ![]()
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