Video from Dr. Scott Masson
"This first lecture looks at the fifth book in the Narnia Chronicles, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It best illustrates the way in which Lewis's children's literature engages with the concerns about progressive education we observed in his lectures The Abolition of Man. At the same time, it provides evidence of the grand cosmological sweep of the whole series, including his commentary on the philosophy of history that so undergirds the presuppositions of his readership. Lewis not only exemplifies the moral virtues of the Tao in the ship's crew, virtues so lacking in Eustace Scrubb, in the crew of the Dawn Treader he presents a sort of allegory of the role of the church in leading the created order towards an eschatological 'marriage' with God. It is not only through the exercise of moral virtue, but through a new birth. That is effected through Aslan himself, the one whose 'magic' drew Eustace there through irresistible grace. It is a Protestant variation on Dante's Divine Comedy." from video introduction.
