Yes, but it’s hard to know how explicit one needs to be to get the point across. If you make it subtext, it’ll go right over many people’s heads. I think the Narnia books, written for children, have the right amount of gospel in them. His adult novels are kind of preachy. but he wrote in a simpler era., when things were more black and white.
In a way media in his era was LESS simple than ours. I have taught some college, and I find students and recent grads are less able to distinguish various kinds of good and evil, less discerning of nuances than they were a few decades ago. TV shows and movies now have no real character development, no different shades of meaning. If you read Lewis, you enter a world where there are different kinds of good and bad, and some things neutral, at least to us. Some people do change. Some don’t.xNoOnex:
Yes, but it’s hard to know how explicit one needs to be to get the point across. If you make it subtext, it’ll go right over many people’s heads. I think the Narnia books, written for children, have the right amount of gospel in them. His adult novels are kind of preachy. but he wrote in a simpler era., when things were more black and white.
Yes, I realize that. I was just trying to lighten the mood.