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The Narnia Code
Michael Ward
其他書名
C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
出版
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
, 2010-10-28
主題
Religion / Christian Living / Inspirational
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Religion / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
ISBN
1414346956
9781414346953
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PsRoXAe-yo0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Millions of readers have been captivated by C. S. Lewis’s famed Chronicles of Narnia, but why? What is it about these seven books that makes them so appealing? For more than half a century, scholars have attempted to find the organizing key—the “secret code”—to the beloved series, but it has remained a mystery. Until now.
In
The Narnia Code
, Michael Ward takes the reader through each of the seven Narnia books and reveals how each story embodies and expresses the characteristics of one of the seven planets of medieval cosmology—Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Luna, Mercury, Venus and Saturn—planets which Lewis described as “spiritual symbols of permanent value.”
How does medieval cosmology relate to the Christian underpinnings of the series? How did it impact Lewis’s depiction of Aslan, the Christlike character at the heart of the books? And why did Lewis keep this planetary inspiration a secret? Originally a ground-breaking scholarly work called
Planet Narnia
, this more accessible adaptation will answer all the questions.