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A Family Guide to Prince Caspian
- 05/24/08
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With Disney’s adaptation of Prince Caspian having just arrived on the big screen, we have seen a flood of Narnia-related books hitting the store shelves. Readers who searched for books to coincide with the release of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will be familiar with many of the authors and their books. Devin Brown’s Inside Prince Caspain is written in the same style and format as Inside Narnia. Leland Ryken’s and Marjorie Mead’s A Reader’s Guide To Caspian is the sequel to A Reader’s Guide Through the Wardrobe. And Christin Ditchfield’s A Family Guide to Prince Caspian is a follow-up to A Family Guide to the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
A Family Guide to Prince Caspian is a guide to discovering the story within the story. Where the other titles tend to focus on the books and movies as literature, analyzing the literary elements, Ditchfield’s books seek to highlight the biblical truths underlying the stories. Each chapter of the book, which is parallel to the chapters in the original, offers “Biblical Parallels and Principles” and some applicable Scriptures. Throughout the book you’ll also find devotional readings, trivia, reflective questions, a few projects that will continue the adventure with children, and a map of Narnia that features all of Prince Caspian’s most significant sites.
As a guide to the film and the book that is applicable to the family and that will help children see the significance behind the story, this book is a success. In fact, read in conjunction with one or more of the other titles, this book will enhance your enjoyment of the series and show you both the literary and theological depths contained even in such a simple story.
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Comments (3)
Tim,I must inquire as to how you justify endorsing Lewis’ writings, yet have worked so hard to discourage people from reading “The Shack.”
The Narnia series has numerous questionable theological issues, such as inclusivism and the presentation of God in ways that are clearly more speculative than scriptural. Whenever you look at Lewis’ greater body of work you cannot deny that he was at least as “dangerous” as Young, suggesting doctrines such as universalism, purgatory, animal salvation, etc.
Whereas with Young we are left wondering if this was simply writing a fictional story yet personally conforming to orthodoxy, in the case of Lewis we know rather firmly that he held many, many doctrines that Evangelicalism would call heterodox, and some within Evangelicalism would call heresy.
To say the least the endorsement of Lewis’ works and discouragement toward Young’s writing leaves me confused. If you wouldn’t mind, please take a minute and respond. Thanks so much!
the makers of Prince Caspian kept to the original story surprisingly well, all thinks considered… i heard they were going to make it into a silly pure-action flick, but thankfully this was not the case
I find that some of Lewis writing is quite reformed
The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.
CS Lewis