
Planet Narnia
The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis
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Narrated by:
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Nigel Patterson
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Michael Ward
For over half a century, scholars have labored to show that C. S. Lewis' famed but apparently disorganized Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won general acceptance, and the structure of Narnia's symbolism has remained a mystery.
Michael Ward has finally solved the enigma. In Planet Narnia, he demonstrates that medieval cosmology, a subject which fascinated Lewis throughout his life, provides the imaginative key to the seven novels. Drawing on the whole range of Lewis' writings, Ward reveals how the Narnia stories were designed to express the characteristics of the seven medieval planets - Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Luna, Mercury, Venus, and Saturn - planets which Lewis described as "spiritual symbols of permanent value". Using these seven symbols, Lewis secretly constructed the Chronicles so that in each book the plot-line, the ornamental details, and, most important, the portrayal of the Christ-figure of Aslan, all serve to communicate the governing planetary personality.
Planet Narnia is a groundbreaking study that will provoke a major revaluation not only of the Chronicles, but of Lewis' whole literary and theological outlook.
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great commentary on C.S. Lewis's works.
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Beautiful and Academic
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this book was phenomenal
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Just wow!
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By Jove
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Incredible
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Fascinating!!
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The Answer to the Narnian Riddle
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Brilliant
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But if you primarily want the gist of his argument without all the detailed references to Lewis's scholarly works, his poetry, and particularly the Ransom trilogy, or Ward's explanation of what other Lewis scholars have thought and why they missed this insight, etc., you might prefer to listen to Dr Ward himself give a series of 12 lectures, each about 20 minutes long, called "C.S. Lewis: Christology and Cosmology," also available here on Audible.
A Detailed and Well-presented Argument
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