Knowing Aslan
by Thomas Williams
from Thomas Nelson

Editorial Review:

In addition to being one of the best-loved books of all time, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is sure to set box-office records when it releases Christmas 2005. Distributed by Disney, with special effects by WETA Workshop (The Lord of the Rings), and backed by a $150MM budget, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe will draw millions of viewers, both Christian and non-Christian.

In the same way that Christians walked away from viewing Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ with a hunger to share Christ with their neighbors, Christians will leave The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe wanting to share the Christ depicted by Aslan in the movie. Aslan, killed by the White Witch and raised to life three days later, is a shadow of the One who was crucified and raised to life for our sins.

Using biblical parallels, this small, easy-to-read book will lead readers to an understanding of Christ and what He did for them by drawing lessons from The C.S. Lewis book and movie. Christians will want to buy this book in bulk as a non-threatening, warm-hearted evangelistic tool.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0

• Preachy and Disappointing
  I was excited to get this book at first, to learn more about Aslan, the spiritual connections between him, Narnia and our world. The author starts out seemingly very understanding about how people seem lost, angry and wanting in this world. However, when I got to the chapter where he's talking about rebelling, he goes on as though it's a bad thing to rebel, as though it's against God. I almost stopped reading after that, realising the book would probably going to get even more preachy. I was not wrong... more info

• It serves a purpose.
  "Knowing Aslan" is a decent book to accomplish the goal of explaining some key parallels between Aslan (C.S. Lewis's not-so-tame lion from the Chronicles of Narnia) and Jesus. I read the entire book in about twenty minutes, so it's obviously not long, and therefore, cannot be deep. If you want an in-depth analysis of Lewis's allegory, there are other books that spend much more time and intellectual rigor pursuing that end. Williams' approach in "Knowing Aslan" is much simpler and straight-forward. He... more info