How will Not a Tame Lion help readers and moviegoers better understand The Chronicles of Narnia?
Bruce Edwards: If I may quote from my preface–the aim of NOT A TAME LION is to: “. . . prevent the possibility that Lewis’s Christian convictions, which inhabit and animate the Narnian landscape, will be “lost in translation” as the stories migrate from text to film. “We can hope that this is not the case, and no one would be happier than me should the movies do justice to these beloved tales. But I have endeavored in this book to take nothing for granted, making it my goal specifically to orient the willing reader new to The Chronicles (as well as the veteran sojourner there) to what we might call Narnia’s spiritual geography, that is, to its ultimately Christian themes, and, most assuredly, to its undeniable center: King Aslan, the Great Lion, Son of the Great Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea. “Aslan must again be the one to save Narnia, to rescue it from becoming just one more kingdom swept away in the homogenizing flood of popular culture that jettisons its core convictions and compelling ch
