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Sunday 24 February 2013

The Rebellious Privacy of God

 

In the Narnia Chronicles, C.S. Lewis ‘is trying to evoke what it feels like to believe in the God of Christian revelation’. So says Rowan Williams in his insightful and readable The Lion’s World (SPCK, 2012), before offering this intriguing insight:

‘Aslan may be the rightful king of Narnia, but he makes his first appearance as a rebel against the established order... [Lewis] is introducing us to a God who, so far from being the guarantor of the order that we see around us, is its deadly enemy.’

This is a salutary reminder of the lowly status both of Christ during his life and the church in its first centuries of existence, where to be a Christian was to be a misfit, subversive, and perhaps even a political threat. While true in many parts of today’s world, it’s not something we’ve really come to terms with in the West. Perhaps that time is coming. As it does, our appreciation of the Lamb who is the Lion will only deepen in dependence.
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