"The stone table cracks. Aslan, who has given his life for Edmund, returns from the dead. This was my childhood understanding of the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe. In doing so, I was trading on traditional atonement theories; Jesus/Aslan as substitute, giving his life for someone else. So I was pleasantly surprised in watching the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, to find a number of layers added to traditional understandings of the atonement."
Emergent Kiwi writes a great blog about the many facets of the atonement of Christ that are seen in Lewis' The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
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