Cover | 1 |
Title Page | 4 |
Copyright | 5 |
Table of Contents | 6 |
Body | 10 |
Foreword | 10 |
Introduction: C.S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia | 12 |
Lucy looks into a Wardrobe/What Lucy found there | 15 |
Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve: Humanity as an Organism | 15 |
Sin as Ignorance | 16 |
Edmund and the Wardrobe | 18 |
What do we do when we do something? | 2 |
Or:What is an action? | 18 |
Different Types of Ethics | 19 |
Virtues | 20 |
Back to Edmund and the Children | 21 |
Turkish Delight | 22 |
Does Beauty equal Goodness? The Cause of Sin | 22 |
Eritis sicut deus: You will be as God | 23 |
Desire and Lust, Bondage and Exclusive Attention | 24 |
Broken-down Relationships and Lies as Consequences of Sin | 26 |
Jealousy and Sin | 27 |
Back on this Side of the Door | 28 |
Sin as a Disruption of Relationships and the Criteria of not Judging | 28 |
The Law of the Excluded Third | 29 |
How do we know what we know? A Digression into the Philosophy of Science | 30 |
Narnia’s Own Time | 33 |
The Existence of Conceivable Worlds | 34 |
Causality and Unavailability | 35 |
Into the Forest | 37 |
Sin’s Cosmic Dimension | 38 |
The Desire for Immediate Satisfaction of Needs as a Present-Day Sin | 39 |
Mistrust as a Sin | 40 |
Sin as Indecisiveness | 40 |
A Day with the Beavers | 42 |
The Theory of External “Emotional Control” | 43 |
An Intrinsic Knowledge of God in Our Inner Being | 44 |
Law and Gospel | 45 |
Christ’s Role in Creation | 46 |
What Happened after Dinner | 48 |
Messianic Prophecies | 48 |
In the Footsteps of the Trinity | 50 |
Co-operative and Obstinate Human Actions | 54 |
Fear of God and God’s Omnipotence | 55 |
Assurance and Safety | 57 |
The White Witch | 58 |
In the Witch’s House | 59 |
The Spell Begins to Break | 60 |
Salvation, Creation and Sustaining Life | 60 |
The Forerunner | 62 |
“Charismas” – Spiritual Gifts | 63 |
Aslan Approaches | 65 |
Shame as the Realisation of Sin | 65 |
Initial Regret | 66 |
A Part of that Power that wants Evil yet still manages to do Good | 67 |
Evil does not Celebrate | 68 |
Commitment to Truth in the Face of Threat | 68 |
Peter’s first Battle | 69 |
Christ is closer to us than we are to ourselves | 70 |
Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time | 72 |
Sin as Sloth | 73 |
The Positive Correlation of Evil to Goodness | 74 |
Rejection of the Naturalistic Fallacy | 75 |
The Deep Original Magic and the Double Commandment of Love as Law | 76 |
Can Love that demands Death be Love? | 76 |
The Triumph of the Witch | 78 |
Subjective and Objective Atonement | 79 |
Christians join in the Fight | 81 |
Gethsemane? | 82 |
Is the Death of Christ what God wanted? | 83 |
Scorn,Mockery and the Reviling of the Cross | 84 |
The Foolishness of the Cross:My God,my God, why have you forsaken me? | 85 |
Evil’s Relative Independence | 87 |
Deeper Magic from the Dawn of Time | 88 |
Care for the Dead | 88 |
The Truth of the Resurrection | 89 |
The Gospel and the Deeper Magic | 91 |
What Happened to the Statues | 96 |
The Descent into Hell | 96 |
Man’s Co-Operation and the Ability to overcome Evil | 98 |
The Hunting of the White Stag | 99 |
The Effect of Healing: Justification and Sanctification | 99 |
Empowering Humans for their Role as Ruler | 102 |
The Interweaving of Sunday and Everyday Life | 103 |
Divine Intervention and Unpredictability | 104 |
Postscript: A Brief History of the Cross | 107 |
The Ancient Church’s Doctrine of Redemption | 108 |
The Medieval Model of Trade | 109 |
The Reformation Doctrine of Penal Satisfaction | 111 |
The Change in Doctrines of Atonement at the Start of Modern Times | 113 |
The Abandonment of Possible Solutions | 115 |
Possible Solutions through Combined Metaphors | 115 |
Endnotes | 117 |
Glossary | 121 |