Death Works Backwards: C. S. Lewis on Sin, the Law and Redemption
My Recent Lecture on C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
In April, I got the opportunity to give two lectures on C. S. Lewis at The Inklings Fellowship meeting in Montreat, NC. This was the first of those two lectures, entitled, “Death Works Backwards: Sin, the Law, and Redemption in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.”
In this lecture, I discuss how Lewis represents the traditional “ransom” theory of atonement in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and how he, agreeing with Matthew Arnold, came to identify the central message of the gospel as about passing through death into life.
A link to the lecture (via William O’Flaherty’s excellent CS Lewis YouTube channel) is below.
Jason! Why do you insist on making me rethink everything I've ever learned about my faith: The idea of Israel (now and in the past), Penal Substitutionary Atonement, Atonement in the form of payment, needing a new heart to bring about a right judgement, Jewish Eschatology, and the list goes on.... Dang it!!!
Could you speak more on Christians "never being entirely free from the threat of [Sin's] reemergence"? What is the nature of indwelling sin in the life of the believer? Why/How does sin still dwell in the believer?