Heart of Christianity

David Clarkson
November 20, 2016
Fiction of Lewis

"Now as myth transcends thought, incarnation transcends myth. The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact" (Myth Became Fact). Back to my discussion on how many characters from the Chronicles of Narnia lost faith, and therefore never went back to Narnia, despite the fact that they had experienced it first hand. For the rest of the characters, fact was still fact. They were still able to go back to the world that they believed in, because they believed in its truth until the end. It did not matter that their siblings did not believe in it anymore, because for them fact was always fact. Other people's faith did not affect their own. I think that this is an accurate representation of Christianity as well. Some people never forget the factual aspect of Christianity, they stay strong until the end and have a sturdy faith. However, others never truly believed, and while it was convenient for them to play the part for a while, they never saw it as fact. While they were in the moment the characters found it easy and convenient to play they part, but when it is no longer convenient, their true colors are shown. This faith eventually fails, and does as represented in this series.