Torah from Narnia

  Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well as justice com...

After a bit of a tangent, it is now time to return to Aslan's command at the beginning of Narnian time. We recall that the command has a...

In our last post we noted that there is one Talking Beast, the horse Bree from The Horse and His Boy, who is highly attentive to not acting...

In our last post we noted the lack of practical clarity attached to two of the three commands Aslan gives in his inaugural speech to the Nar...

Trigger warning: in this post I likely disagree with Lewis.  In our last post we noted that Aslan’s inaugural address to his creations inclu...

At first glance it may appear that the comment of Strawberry on which we ended the last post was ignored by Aslan who continues to address h...

As we have discussed previously, Aslan’s declaration of Narnia consists of three parts: a call awakening Narnia, a series of four commands, ...

Hail, Aslan. We hear and obey. We are awake. We love. We think. We speak. We know.  The response of the talking beasts and other creatures o...

  Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters Aslan’s opening proclamation of Narnia may be viewed as three statements in a chiasm...

After sharing with his creations the ideal of love, Aslan directs them in the tools they will need to bring this about, namely thought and s...

Aslan’s next command to the newly created creatures of Narnia is “Love!” Given the importance of Love in Lewis’ theology we should not be su...

I will for now, simply ignore the problems I am having dwarfs and continue discussing the creation of Narnia.  Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake...

My apologies for not posting in quite a while. While I've been generally happy with our current analysis of the Narnian Creation story I...

Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled i...

Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music (The Magician's Nephew)...

The Lion, whose eyes never blinked, stared at the animals as hard as if he was going to burn them up with his mere stare… Many animals sat u...

The Narnian creation begins with Aslan singing.  Aslan’s singing creates the physical Narnian universe, from the stars above to the flowers ...