Grace In The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe

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Grace was a concept that came up during Lewis’ conversion to Christianity. Some may say that because of this great discovery of grace that had such a great impact on Lewis’ life he intentionally placed the idea with in his famous books The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as well as some of his other works (162). It looks as though the book was written in a way to provide an explanation for such love he discovered a few years before.
In order to thoroughly get his point of forgiveness across he felt he needed to develop a plot in which there was some elements of atonement within it. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis has the character Edmund sin and in order to be freed from that sin Aslan (the Christ figure) comes to pay for that sin, by sacrificing himself for the boy. However, in his book called Mere Christianity it describes how Lewis didn’t fully grasp the idea of atonement, even though he would write about it. Lewis couldn’t understand the concept of substitution through atonement. He knew that that the death of Christ redeems us from our sins as humans, but he just couldn’t grasp how (162). …show more content…

In the book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Aslan’s actions towards Edmund are clear, they are actions of forgiveness. However, through this forgiveness the lion Aslan suffers, while the boy does not. The presence of justice is also within these concepts of grace and forgiveness. In the book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe justice is definitely an issue for Aslan, even though for everyone else, including Edmund divine justice is a mystery (163). Nonetheless in this particular book the idea of how substitution can bring forth redemption is not explained (163). After the book we are left wondering how could an innocent victim take the punishment of one who is a sinner. Not only that but has the sinner walks out free of charge justice is being achieved

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