Humanity, Divinity and the Evilness of Satan in Lewis’Eyes: A Christian Reading of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Abstract Clive Staples Lewis, is one of the outstanding British novelists and highly influential Christian writers in the twentieth century. His most popular work--The Chronicles of Narnia, regarded as a classical children’s literature, contains series of seven fantasy novels. Studies on C.S. Lewis and Narnia are undertaken from persified perspectives in different approaches ranging from historical biography, moral-philosophy, theology to formalism, psychological analysis, mythology and archetype, feminism and cultural studies. And this tentative study proposes to unveil The Chronicles by demonstrating the dispositions of the characters(The lion, the witch and four children) in the text itself compared with the description of nature in Bible concretely, and analyzing the relationship between humanity(based on the “the Law of Human Nature” and “three parts of morality” proposed by Lewis), pinity, the evilness of Satan, to explore Christian thoughts--“beyond nature” in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.51894

Key words: The Chronicles of Narnia：The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; The Bible ; humanity; pinity; the evilness of Satan; beyond nature

人性、神性和撒旦的罪性——《狮子、女巫和魔衣柜》的基督教解读

摘要刘易斯是十二世纪杰出的英国小说家，也是一位具有高度影响力的基督教作家。他最受欢迎的作品——纳尼亚传奇，被视为儿童文学的经典。研究者从不同的角度以不同的方法对路易斯和《纳尼亚传奇》进行研究，比如历史传记、道德哲学、神学主义、心理分析、神话原型、女性主义和文化研究等方面。本文从《纳尼亚传奇——狮子、女巫和魔衣柜》中角色性格(狮子、女巫和四个孩子)的角度，通过比对圣经中的相关描述具体分析圣经对主要角色性情塑造的影响，并研究人性，神性，撒旦的罪恶性情以及这三者之间的关系，来探讨基督教教义——“超人格”，从而揭示基督教中神的救赎法。

毕业论文关键词：《纳尼亚传奇——狮子、女巫和魔衣柜》；《圣经》；人性；神性；撒旦的罪性；超人格

Content 

Chapter1 Introduction.. 1

1.1 Background and Significance1

1.2 Litetature Review2

Chapter2 Humanity, Divinity, the Evilness of Satan and Their Relationships..5

       2.1 Four children--Humanity.5

    2.1.1 the Law of Human Nature..5

    2.1.2 The Another Law of Human6

2.2 The Lion--Divinity and the Witch--The Evilness of Satan8

2.3The Relationship between the Three above..9

Chapter3 The Reflection of Christian Doctrines--Beyond Personality10

3.1 Making and Begetting.12

      3.1.1 Making: the Reason Why Humanity Involves Features of Divinity.12

    3.1.2 Begetting: the Purpose of God’s creation ..13

3.2 Approach to “Beyond Nature” and its process13

Chapter4 The Influence of Christianity on Lewis .14

4.1 His Religious Experience.14  

4.2 The Influence on His Work.14

Chapter 5 Conclusion .15 

Reference .16

1. Introduction

1.1 Background and Significance 

    Clive Staples Lewis(commonly called C．S．Lewis), one of the outstanding British novelists, poets, academics, medievalists, literary critics, lecturers and arguably a highly influential Christian writer in the twentieth century, mainly contributed to literary criticism, children’s literature, fantasy literature, and popular theology, which brought him far-reaching reputation and acclaim．