David Thornton - Childlike Faith in Narnia

In the Narnia stories, there is a consistent theme about faith and the way that young people engage in it. Lucy is the first person to see Aslan most of the time. As the youngest, it is interesting to think about how Lucy seems to have faith in an easier manner than the others. For it is Lucy that communicates the fact that Aslan is among them. Not until she says these things had the others even thought of seeing the Creator of Narnia. In the Bible it says that people must be like a child to enter the kingdom of God. (Mathew 18:2-4) Children seem to have less influences that have taken over how they view things. An example would be Pysche, who did and always had dreamed of marrying a god. Contrarily, her sister Orual completely doubts all that Pysche believes in. Orual had gotten an education in Greek language and philosophy from the Fox. This led her to value a rational conception of things more than an irrational conception of life which Pysche had held so dear. Children view things as innocent people who haven’t spent much time in the world to be corrupted by others and their own desires and failures.