Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Knowing Aslan: An Encounter With the Lion of Narnia
    Knowing Aslan: An Encounter With the Lion of Narnia
    Knowing Aslan: An Encounter With the Lion of Narnia
    Ebook35 pages31 minutes

    Knowing Aslan: An Encounter With the Lion of Narnia

    By Thomas Williams

    3.5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    In addition to being one of the best-loved books of all time, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is sure to set box-office records when it releases Christmas 2005. Distributed by Disney, with special effects by WETA Workshop (The Lord of the Rings), and backed by a $150MM budget, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe will draw millions of viewers, both Christian and non-Christian.

    In the same way that Christians walked away from viewing Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ with a hunger to share Christ with their neighbors, Christians will leave The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe wanting to share the Christ depicted by Aslan in the movie. Aslan, killed by the White Witch and raised to life three days later, is a shadow of the One who was crucified and raised to life for our sins.

    Using biblical parallels, this small, easy-to-read book will lead readers to an understanding of Christ and what He did for them by drawing lessons from The C.S. Lewis book and movie. Christians will want to buy this book in bulk as a non-threatening, warm-hearted evangelistic tool.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateOct 30, 2005
    ISBN9781418553555
    Knowing Aslan: An Encounter With the Lion of Narnia
    Author

    Thomas Williams

    Thomas Williams has written 14 books, both fiction and nonfiction, including three with Josh McDowell. He has ghostwritten another dozen books for several popular authors. Formerly the executive art director for Word Publishing, Tom has designed or illustrated more than 2,000 book covers and now serves as a creative consultant to several publishers. He and his wife, Faye, have three married daughters and eight grandchildren. They live in Granbury, Texas near Fort Worth.

    Read more from Thomas Williams

    Related to Knowing Aslan

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Reading Corner

      Sep 25, 2023

      An antenatal group solves bumps in the night! Book of the week Hilarious and wildly improbable, there is so much to love about this novel. With a Midsomer Murders vibe, it’s a mashup of chick-lit and crime. The story follows a group of heavily pregn

      2 min read

    • Article

      10 Literary Witches To Hex Trump

      Mar 24, 2017

      In case you hadn’t heard, witches across America—including Lana Del Rey—are uniting to take down Trump via a binding spell, which calls on the spirits to keep the President from doing harm (it already seems to be working). Covens, communities, and so

      5 min read

    • Article

      Turn To The Angels

      Dec 22, 2020

      I was asked recently if angels could help to keep a long-term relationship from going stale and my answer was a definite ‘Yes!’ There are oodles of angels just lining up ready and waiting to support you in any way they can. There’s Raphael, Haniel, A

      4 min read

    • Article

      Turn To The Angels

      Sep 29, 2020

      I try to make time to go for a walk at least once a week. We live on the south coast, but as I don’t often have time for the luxury of driving up to the South Downs, or down to the beach, it might just be walking to the shops. I also sit in the garde

      3 min read

    • Article

      Reading Corner

      Sep 4, 2023

      Reading Corner
      3 min read

    • Article

      Cultural Prescription

      Nov 26, 2021

      Family misfortunes From David Lynch to Jonathan Franzen to Charles Ray, Guardian critics offer suggestions of culture that can mess you up at least as much as your mum and dad “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own w

      2 min read

    • Article

      Little Islands of Faith: The Millions Interviews Tupelo Hassman

      Aug 14, 2019

      To my mind, Catholicism has many of the prettiest and most satisfying ways of evidencing faith. Because we want to touch it, don’t we? The post Little Islands of Faith: The Millions Interviews Tupelo Hassman appeared first on The Millions.

      9 min read

    • Article

      Turn To The Angels

      Aug 3, 2021

      Turn To The Angels
      3 min read

    • Article

      From Queenie To The Mating Season, 15 Books To Help You Beat The January Blues

      Jan 18, 2021

      Two years ago, I published a list of comfort reading to beat the drab January blues. Little did I know that winter 2019 was a golden nirvana, a halcyon period when you could meet a friend for a drink, blast out your problems in the gym, soothe your s

      6 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Apr 22, 2022

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Winning Letter

      Mar 3, 2023

      WE’RE barely into the year and already it feels like it’s a lot. The effects of loadshedding aren’t just about not having electricity – it affects our emotional state too. Having to figure out when to shop, do laundry, cook, care for kids, do hair, w

      5 min read

    • Article

      Turn To The Angels

      Oct 26, 2021

      Turn To The Angels
      3 min read

    • Article

      The ROYAL INSIDER

      Apr 2, 2024

      Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, has written a very brave memoir detailing the abuse he suffered both at home and at boarding school. It’s quite shocking to read about his experience at a Northamptonshire prep school, where he was sent age

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Honeycake Horse

      Mar 7, 2022

      The Honeycake Horse
      5 min read

    • Article

      Q&A with Bonnie

      Apr 21, 2023

      ◗ Elizabeth Zott is a character we would all love to know or even become. Where did such a personality spring from? Fury! I started Lessons in Chemistry about seven years ago. I’d just come out of a meeting, irritated by some garden variety sexism, a

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Knowing Aslan

    3.5/5

    11 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 1/5
      Typical, predictable fare. Pretty much preaching to the choir type little tiny tract that is purely for those its aimed at and typically (myself not included) will only be read by those.
    • 3/5
      Though The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is primarily a children’s book, it has always been enjoyed by adults also. Knowing Aslan seems to have been written with this adult audience in mind. Specifically, the main aim appears to be to reach out to non-Christian adults who have read and enjoyed the Narnian Chronicles. It goes beyond the obvious parallels of the story with Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection, showing how C.S. Lewis uses aspects of Aslan’s nature to illuminate truths about Jesus as Son of God that are often neglected. It’s a very small book, but that’s no bad thing – it was still enough to illuminate some aspects I hadn’t considered even as a reader of LWW on multiple occasions. If you enjoyed LWW, Knowing Aslan is worth the hour or so required to glean some new insights.

    Book preview

    Knowing Aslan - Thomas Williams

    KNOWING

    ASLAN

    AN ENCOUNTER

    WITH THE

    LION OF NARNIA

    THOMAS WILLIAMS

    00-01_KnowingAslan_0001_002

    © 2005 Tom Williams. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

    Published by W Publishing Group, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee 37214.

    All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The New King James Version (NKJV®), copyright 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

    Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Ill. Used by permission.

    W Publishing Group books may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fundraising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Williams, T. M. (Thomas Myron), 1941-

            Knowing Aslan : an encounter with the lion of Narnia / Thomas Williams.

                 p. cm.

          Includes bibliographical references.

            ISBN 0-8499-0494-3

           1. Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.

       Chronicles of Narnia. 2. Children's stories, English—

        History and criticism. 3. Christian fiction, English—

        History and criticism. 4. Fantasy fiction, English—

        History and criticism. 5. Narnia (Imaginary place) 6.

        God in literature. I. Title.

            PR6023.E926C53984 2005

            823'.912—dc22

    2005015816

    Printed in the United States of America

    05 06 07 08 09 OPM 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

    CONTENTS

    1. OUR MISUNDERSTOOD GOD

    2. THE TROUBLE WITH EDMUND

    3. HOW THINGS WENT WRONG

    4. THE RESCUE

    5. A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION

    6. BEGINNING THE JOURNEY

    NOTES

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    Chapter One

    OUR

    MISUNDERSTOOD

    GOD

    WHO IS ASLAN? YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, IF you’ve seen the movie or read the book that he’s the magnificent Lion in C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. But not everyone who has met Aslan picks up on who he really is. Perhaps this describes you. You may have

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1