Annie Crawford@annielcrawford
Most people are not directly reasoned into truth and goodness; they must be drawn by beauty.
Feminism and queer theory have deformed the way we imagine sex and gender, filling our minds with images of oppression and violence.
If we are return to the truth and goodness of God's created order, we will need to be given better ways to imagine our masculinity and femininity, images that rouse our desire to live into the meaning of our gendered bodies rather than reject it.
C.S. Lewis and the Christian tradition in which he worked offers far better images and far better stories about the nature and meaning of our sexuality than the gender critical theorists or actual oppressive misogynists that dominate our cultural landscape today.
@TheOptimisticC3 new book, Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve, helps us recover and mediate on these good images.
Herring invites us to come, look, and see what glories we might enjoy if we dared to receive our gendered bodies as gifts given for our good rather than burdens imposed for control.
Apart from Planet Narnia, the second half of this book provides the best, most delightful, relevant, and edifying commentary I have read on the Chronicles of Narnia to date.
