The Unicorn says that
humans are brought to Narnia when Narnia is stirred and upset. And
Narnia is in trouble now: A false Aslan roams the land. Narnia's only
hope is that Eustace and Jill, old friends to Narnia, will be able to
find the true Aslan and restore peace to the land. Their task is a
difficult one because, as the Centaur says, "The stars never lie, but
Men and Beasts do." Who is the real Aslan and who is the imposter?
A voyage to the very ends of the world.
Narnia... where a dragon awakens... where stars walk the earth... where
anything can happen. A king and some unexpected companions embark on a
voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As they sail father
and farther from charted waters, they discover that their quest is more
than they imagined and that the world's end is only the beginning.
Eustace and Jill escape
from the bullies at school through a strange door in the wall, which,
for once, is unlocked. It leads to the open moor...or does it? Once
again Aslan has a task for the children, and Narnia needs them. Through
dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, they pursue the quest that
brings them face to face with the evil Witch. She must be defeated if
Prince Rillian is to be saved.
The Horse and his Boy
is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named
Shasta on the run from his homeland with the talking horse, Bree. When
the pair discover a deadly plot by the Calormen people to conquer the
land of Narnia, the race is on to warn the inhabitants of the impending
danger and to rescue them all from certain death.
The Pevensie siblings
are back to help a prince denied his rightful throne as he gathers an
army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king. But in the
end, it is a battle of honor between two men alone that will decide the
fate of an entire world.
When Digory and Polly
are tricked by Digory's peculiar Uncle Andrew into becoming part of an
experiment, they set off on the adventure of a lifetime. What happens to
the children when they touch Uncle Andrew's magic rings is far beyond
anything even the old magician could have imagined. Hurtled into the
Wood between the Worlds, the children soon find that they can enter many
worlds through the mysterious pools there. In one world they encounter
the evil Queen Jadis, who wreaks havoc in the streets of London when she
is accidentally brought back with them. When they finally manage to
pull her out of London, unintentionally taking along Uncle Andrew and a
coachman with his horse, they find themselves in what will come to be
known as the land of Narnia.
Lucy is the first to
find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house.
At first, no one believes her when she tells of her adventures in the
land of Narnia. But soon Edmund and then Peter and Susan discover the
Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. In the blink of an
eye, their lives are changed forever.
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much)
capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration of "right
thinking," and how it led to his acceptance of the Christian faith.
Although this is a very personal account of his conversion, Chesterton
makes it clear he came to a rational decision based upon his scholarly
examination of Christianity's arguments, intending to provide a
"positive" companion to the previous Heretics.
Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates
his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a
mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw
Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through the first seven
levels, Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release
into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed
into a stronger and better man. For it is only when he has learned from
each of these levels that he can ascend to the gateway to Heaven: the
Garden of Eden. The second part of one of the greatest epic poems, Purgatory is an enthralling Christian allegory of sin, redemption and ultimate enlightenment.
Two long essays: “The
Idea of a Christian Society” (on the direction of religious thought
toward criticism of political and economic systems) and “Notes towards
the Definition of Culture” (on culture, its meaning, and the dangers
threatening the legacy of the Western world).
Writing under the
pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a
dialectical lyric to present his conception of faith. Abraham is
portrayed as a great man, who chose to sacrifice his son, Isaac, in the
face of conflicting expectations and in defiance of any conceivable
ethical standard. The infamous and controversial 'teleological
suspension of the ethical' challenged the contemporary views of Hegel's
universal moral system, and the suffering individual must alone make a
choice 'on the strength of the absurd'. Kierkegaard's writings have
inspired both modern Protestant theology and existentialism.
