Lewis on Atonement -- Mimetic Theory and Literary Study

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Date Posted: 10:35:37 04/27/08 Sun
Author: Shannon
Subject: Lewis on Atonement

As we have posted on Lewis so frequently this semester and have discussed his differences with Girard regarding myth and Scripture, I found the following passage(from, "The Narnian" an excellent biography on C.S.Lewis) illuminating. It follows Lewis' wrestling with the simliarity of Christ's passion to various stories of a "dying god" throughout the world:

"So perhaps this story was indeed different from all the other myths--different because it happened, because it was a historical event rather than an imagined story....But even so, there remained a still deeper problem: So what if it happened?....'What I couldn't understand,' he [Lewis] wrote to Arthur, 'was how the life and death of Someone else (whoever he was)2000 years ago could help us here and now--except in so far as his example helped us. And the example buisness, tho' true and important, is not Christianity: right in the centre of Christianity, in the Gospels and St. Paul, you keep on getting someting quite different and very mysterious .' That something was the idea of Atonment: that the death of Jesus on that cross was sacrificial; that it was somehow a death on our behalf; and that it therefore, again somehow, put us right with God--at least made it possible for us to be put right with God."

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Re: Lewis on Atonement -- JPJ II, 18:40:07 04/27/08 Sun