I will go ahead and comment on this one, as I'm actually working through some of this again in Chapter 17.
My decision to try (as best as research and some personal experience could afford) to incorporate different faiths in TSG was a very deliberate one from the beginning. There is a very ugly element in this fandom that is, to my mind, totally antithetical to the inclusive messages found both in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and in the Chronicles themselves. Not that those ugly elements are likely reading what I'm writing anymore, immoral as I am. I am being deliberately didactic even though at this point I'm pretty obviously preaching to the choir for the ones who are reading TSG and like this element aren't the ones who need a broader, more compassionate view. Further, in the characters of the Russells, Digory Kirke, and Polly Plummer, I wanted "evolutionists" who are also people of faith, for I do not view faith and science and mutually exclusive.
As to Lucy hearing Aslan and the others, yes, she does and yes, that's a part of who she is, and why she will be so astounding when she unleashed on an unsuspecting England, even for the short time she has. In this scene, Heart and Mind where Edmund hears Aslan more clearly, I'd not thought until now that it is a bit inconsistent with the assumption that only Lucy hears him so clearly. I do assume that Lucy's connection is solid and always present; while it's not said, a part of something I toy with her is that during this period of the return from Narnia, Aslan is very much "in the neighborhood." In fact, Aslan says as much in the chapter to come.
Edmund may also be hearing more clearly at this particular moment because he is newly returned, more attuned to Aslan than is usual, and because his own trauma at the Wall of Water and Lilies was so great. He is asking and listening and Aslan is responding.
If you can articulate the suicide point a little better, I'd like to hear it for I've got Richard returning to that issue in the next chapter I'm working on.
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My decision to try (as best as research and some personal experience could afford) to incorporate different faiths in TSG was a very deliberate one from the beginning. There is a very ugly element in this fandom that is, to my mind, totally antithetical to the inclusive messages found both in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and in the Chronicles themselves. Not that those ugly elements are likely reading what I'm writing anymore, immoral as I am. I am being deliberately didactic even though at this point I'm pretty obviously preaching to the choir for the ones who are reading TSG and like this element aren't the ones who need a broader, more compassionate view. Further, in the characters of the Russells, Digory Kirke, and Polly Plummer, I wanted "evolutionists" who are also people of faith, for I do not view faith and science and mutually exclusive.
As to Lucy hearing Aslan and the others, yes, she does and yes, that's a part of who she is, and why she will be so astounding when she unleashed on an unsuspecting England, even for the short time she has. In this scene, Heart and Mind where Edmund hears Aslan more clearly, I'd not thought until now that it is a bit inconsistent with the assumption that only Lucy hears him so clearly. I do assume that Lucy's connection is solid and always present; while it's not said, a part of something I toy with her is that during this period of the return from Narnia, Aslan is very much "in the neighborhood." In fact, Aslan says as much in the chapter to come.
Edmund may also be hearing more clearly at this particular moment because he is newly returned, more attuned to Aslan than is usual, and because his own trauma at the Wall of Water and Lilies was so great. He is asking and listening and Aslan is responding.
If you can articulate the suicide point a little better, I'd like to hear it for I've got Richard returning to that issue in the next chapter I'm working on.