The 150th anniversary of â??Alice in Wonderlandâ? has been widely celebrated this year, but it is odd, a recent essay at the New Yorker notes, that how seldom the religion of its author, Lewis Carroll, is considered.
The scant attention given to Carrollâ??s Christian faith is particularly striking since he is, in many ways, the direct predecessor of authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, who are practically Protestant saints in literary circles. Acolytes of Lewis and Tolkien readily dismiss suggestions that their works of fiction are mere allegories of the Christian faith. Yet, at the same time, their fans value both writers for their literary apologetics.
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