<Dd> The Silver Chair the continuing war with the powers of darkness . </Dd> <Dd> The Last Battle the coming of the Antichrist (the Ape), the end of the world and the Last Judgement . </Dd> <P> With the release of the 2005 film there was renewed interest in the Christian parallels found in the books . Some find them distasteful, while noting that they are easy to miss if one is not familiar with Christianity . Alan Jacobs, author of The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis, implies that through these Christian aspects, Lewis becomes "a pawn in America's culture wars". Some Christians see the Chronicles as excellent tools for Christian evangelism . The subject of Christianity in the novels has become the focal point of many books . </P> <P> Rev. Abraham Tucker pointed out that "While there are in the Narnia tales many clear parallels with Biblical events, they are far from precise, one - on - one parallels . (...) Aslan sacrifices himself in order to redeem Edmund, the Traitor, who is completely reformed and forgiven . That is as if the New Testament were to tell us that Jesus Christ redeemed Judas Iscariot and that Judas later became one of the Apostles . (...) There had been times in Christian history when Lewis might have been branded a heretic for far smaller creative innovations in theology ." </P>

Religion in the lion the witch and the wardrobe