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Donald Ian Rankin

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Mon Dec-12-05 06:42 PM
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24. There's an interesting discussion of that at

http://andrewrilstone.blogspot.com/2005/12/see-you-later-allegorist.html

As I understand it, what seems likely is that when C.S. Lewis said that the Narnia books were not a Christian allegory, what he meant was that not that they were not explicitly Christian but that they were not technically an allegory, and that when he said this he was using a very technical, very narrow (probably too narrow to be correct) definition of allegory.

I've never found the Narnia books especially offensive, but I haven't read The Last Battle, which is reputed to be the most explicitly theological of them.

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