Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tolkien the Christian Scholar and Fantasist1. The Hobbit and the Delights of Adventure2. The Silmarillion and the Music of Creation3. The Fellowship of the Ring and the Calling of the Church4. The Two Towers and the Power of Surrender5. The Return of the King and the Victory of Joy Amidst SadnessConclusion: Tolkien ...
For those looking to deepen their appreciation of Flannery O'Connor, Wood shows how this literary icon's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition.
This book calls for churches to offer an unapologetically Christian witness to a post-modern world. It asks whether we are witnessing--due to the triumph of the autonomous and unattached self--the complete destruction of those institutions and practices that once shaped human character toward fulfillment in goods larger than our own self-interest; ...
In this accessible and engaging book, Ralph Wood shows us that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece is a deeply Christian work because it does not blink back the horrors of our terrible times but confronts them with startling honesty. Readers keep turning to this work because here they are immersed in significance and meaning ? perceiving the Hope than ...
Testifies to the presence of God as both our post-earthly hope and our present-world existence. / These thought-provoking sermons by Ralph Wood, a layman who has taught religion and literature for many years, seek to till new soil in the fertile field of Christian faith and life. They draw on a wide range of reading not only in Christian theology ...
Balancing theology with literary criticism, this work explores the comic vision in the works of four American novelists, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, John Updike and Peter De Vries.
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