Narnia described as . . .

Scholars miss the mark all the time. Professor Louis Markos delivers a set of fascinating lectures on CS Lewis, but his statement on the nature of the prose in Narnia is fallacious.  He concludes that the intention of CS Lewis was not to present Christian allegory, hah!, I think he missed the boat.  Presumably Markos quotes Lewis discussing a dream that prompted the great CS Lewis to write the Chronicles of Narnia. Furthermore, even young people see the Christian allegories in Narnia.  What these types of scholars, like Markos, do is use critical methods based on presuppositions that are often off putting to Western traditions to take apart the ideas presented in the literature already. It is a shame that such scholars lecture on such fallacious ideologies in order to accomplish ends, often political or destructive to faith, which complicates simple matters.  In CS Lewis’ Men without Chests would be a strategy to address philosophies that under-gird teaching and lectures.  Lewis says, when writing about the teaching of literature, “I doubt whether Gaius and Titius have really planned, under cover of teaching English, to propagate their philosophy”  CS Lewis can be used to address the postmodern “scholars” of today.  This is the usefulness of Lewis to show the fallaciousness of the teachers in our lives. Lewis writes "Until quite modern times all teachers and even all men believed the universe to be such that certain emotional reactions on our part could be either congruous or incongruous to it—believed, in fact, that objects did not merely receive, but could merit, our approval or disapproval, our reverence or our contempt" We give our approach to scholars in the posttruth world allegiance where we want to and disregard what is least helpful.