<Dl> <Dd> Specific Christian parallels may be found in the entries for individual books and characters . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Specific Christian parallels may be found in the entries for individual books and characters . </Dd> <P> C.S. Lewis was an adult convert to Christianity and had previously authored some works on Christian apologetics and fiction with Christian themes . However, he did not originally set out to incorporate Christian theological concepts into his Narnia stories; it is something that occurred as he wrote them . As he wrote in Of Other Worlds (1982): </P> <P> Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument, then collected information about child psychology and decided what age group I'd write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out' allegories' to embody them . This is all pure moonshine . I couldn't write in that way . It all began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion . At first there wasn't anything Christian about them; that element pushed itself in of its own accord . </P>

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