Insight from The Chronicles of Narnia: How Christians Deal with Guilt in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Guilt is a problem most Christians face more or less regularly throughout their lives. Pastors and counselors see it all the time in their work. Few things disable Christian practice more readily or thoroughly than guilt. By guilt I mean that sense that we are in the wrong for this or that reason. And that sense activates what sin has made our default baseline – that we are wrong. We incur guilt because we are guilty. Edmund Pevensie in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe exemplifies this issue and how followers of Aslan, the Christ-figure in the stories, should deal with it. Edmund is guilty of betraying his siblings and Aslan to the White Witch under whose evil enchantment he has fallen. Aslan, like Christ, “saves” Edmund from the death his betrayal earned him under the Deep Magic, the moral order of Narnia....