Posted on 12/07/2005 7:37:30 PM PST by xzins
You should be sceptical. I think it's clear that Lewis was writing about Christ, and I'm sure he alluded to that fact himself in his writings, but you have to question anything that comes from Walter Hooper. He has "found" other Lewis "writings" before, and not all Lewis scholars think they're genuine.
Actually, Lewis himself said that his works were not allegories. And he was emphatic about that. Allegories tend to be rigid; Lewis was writing stories into which he injected all sorts of figures from Christianity and from myths and legends. He believed that the story of Christ redeeming man is the Real story of stories, and he liked to tell stories reflecting that. But that's different from being an allegory.
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