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Though a stub, this article contains a few spoilers and they need to be marked. I'm about halfway through reading the books for the first time and I didn't want to read anything about the end of Narnia.-- Butters 06:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
As I always remembered it, this unseen character was named Emperor-Over-the-Sea, not Emperor-Over-Sea. Can someone confirm it and change this article's title? I don't have the book before me, and I don't know how to change the title. I could probably find out, but as I don't have the book to be sure, and because I'm not positive that Joe Schmo can do it, I leave that to someone else. -- D. F. Schmidt (talk) 07:22, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
This article does not give the whole picture. Lewis wrote in his letters that his works were suppositional, not allegorical. This would mean that Aslan does not represent Jesus, as the article says, but Aslan actually is Jesus in a differant form. This also means that his father, the Emperor, is not mysterious at all. He is the God of Christianity. This is further supported in Dawn Treader when Aslan tells the children that they may know him in Narnia only for a short time so that they may know him better on earth. 129.252.69.19 22:40, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
In many cases you would be right, an authors work speaks for itself. But in deciding whether a work is allegorical or suppositional, the authors intent is the deciding factor. Yes, Aslan does fulfill many of the same roles as Christ, but this is because they are the same character, not because Aslan is a representation.
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Though a stub, this article contains a few spoilers and they need to be marked. I'm about halfway through reading the books for the first time and I didn't want to read anything about the end of Narnia.-- Butters 06:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
As I always remembered it, this unseen character was named Emperor-Over-the-Sea, not Emperor-Over-Sea. Can someone confirm it and change this article's title? I don't have the book before me, and I don't know how to change the title. I could probably find out, but as I don't have the book to be sure, and because I'm not positive that Joe Schmo can do it, I leave that to someone else. -- D. F. Schmidt (talk) 07:22, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
This article does not give the whole picture. Lewis wrote in his letters that his works were suppositional, not allegorical. This would mean that Aslan does not represent Jesus, as the article says, but Aslan actually is Jesus in a differant form. This also means that his father, the Emperor, is not mysterious at all. He is the God of Christianity. This is further supported in Dawn Treader when Aslan tells the children that they may know him in Narnia only for a short time so that they may know him better on earth. 129.252.69.19 22:40, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
In many cases you would be right, an authors work speaks for itself. But in deciding whether a work is allegorical or suppositional, the authors intent is the deciding factor. Yes, Aslan does fulfill many of the same roles as Christ, but this is because they are the same character, not because Aslan is a representation.