In this Journal Entry, I am going to review some of my classmate's stories that we shared in class and comment on certain themes of Lewis' that my classmates and I gravitated towards when writing the stories and why.
I have been fortunate enough to have taken this class with people I am blessed to call friends of mine. Fun story, most of my friends in the class absolutely love Jesus Christ; they are very strong Christians. Coincidentally, some of their stories, as well as mine have not-so-subtle biblical references in their stories. The most prominent, I think were Art's story about the first Narnian kiss as he pulled from passages that talked about the Biblical bride and bridegroom, the Church and Jesus, Preston's story as he referenced the Last Supper and aspects of the Crucifixion, Walker's story as he referenced Revelation and some rapture prophecies, and my own story as I referenced the presence of sin in the world. Some of my other classmates, who I know also love Jesus, did not but reference the Bible as prominently. Luke referenced the concept of the sacrificial lamb but more incorporated Lewis' sense of adventure and emphasis on other worlds. Also referencing the sense of adventure was Josh with his story. One story that I thought was probably the most interesting was JC's story. He took a part of The Magician's Nephew and played with the interplay of the two worlds; Narnia and the world that we live in, specifically London.
I assert the reason that certain themes popped up in my classmates' and my stories to be the prominence of those themes to the individual as they were reading the Narnia series. For some the most prominent theme of the theological parallels in his fictions. For me it was, more specifically, the God complex that stood out to me and I think really impacted me as a reader and as a Christian. Parallels to ultimate truths have a way of making those truths more tangible and personal, especially when you are dealing with the concept of an omnipitent, all powerful, all knowing God that is invisible. Humans have a tendancy to place faith in things that are seen, when in reality, the only thing that we should place our faith in is the only thing that is eternal, which subsequently is unseen.
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