epershand: The Tardis has fallen on its side. (Fallen Tardis)
epershand ([personal profile] epershand) wrote in [personal profile] starlady 2011-01-18 12:52 am (UTC)

I might eventually write a long post on this some time, but Lewis's Christianity has a whole lot more in common with the Anthroposophy I got from going to a Waldorf elementary school than it has in common with any branch of Christianity whatsoever. I've done almost no reading on formal Anthroposophy as it's practiced by adults, but the first time I read Narnia, which was after I switched over from the Waldorf School to a mainstream public education, felt like coming home.

I don't think the parallels are intentional--Anthroposophy claims not to be Christian, and Lewis claimed to be--but I suspect that both were part of a broader move away from mainstream Christianity towards Christ-flavored spirituality in the wake of the First World War.

On the topic of how little time they spend in Narnia, I tend to think of LWW much more as a house-with-a-mystery book than a going-to-Narnia book. That the mystery winds up being Narnia, and sets up the rest of the series for adventures back and forth, is sort of separate from how I feel about the book as a whole.

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