Review: allegory of something else
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2012
Allegory seems an allegory of the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory. A rather good one too. The characters learn in a place between Heaven and Hell to pray, repent, do good deeds and so on to be let into the City up ahead. I was surprised, however, when the last scene negates this, stating it is about the need for Christians to do these things in this life. Which is surprising. The main part gives the impression that Christ's salvation is useless, or at least insufficient unless we do these works. Salvation by faith will not save you, as one character who believed and didn't go through the whole discipleship regimen was seen in hell, even though some he lead to Christ got to go through the Purgatory. The last scenes do not erase this impression. The author seems to be a Protestant of some sort, yet Protestant theology insists that holiness and sanctification come from Christ, and are not from our own works.