Creation And Beauty In Tolkien S Catholic Vision
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Creation And Beauty In Tolkien S Catholic Vision
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Author : Michael John Halsall
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-01-02
Creation And Beauty In Tolkien S Catholic Vision written by Michael John Halsall and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-02 with Religion categories.
This book invites readers into Tolkien’s world through the lens of a variety of philosophers, all of whom owe a rich debt to the Neoplatonic philosophical tradition. It places Tolkien’s mythology against a wider backdrop of Catholic philosophy and asks serious questions about the nature of creation, the nature of God, what it means to be good, and the problem of evil. Halsall sets Tolkien alongside both his contemporaries and ancient authors, revealing his careful use of literary devices inspired by them to craft his own “mythology for England.”
Creation And Beauty In Tolkien S Catholic Vision
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Author : Michael Halsall
language : en
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Release Date : 2020-09-24
Creation And Beauty In Tolkien S Catholic Vision written by Michael Halsall and has been published by Lutterworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book hopes to invite readers into Tolkien's world through the lens of a variety of philosophers, of all of whom owe a rich debt to the Neoplatonic philosophical tradition. It places Tolkien's mythology against a wider backdrop of catholic philosophy and asks serious questions as to the nature of creation alongside the nature of God, what it means to be good, and concerning the problem of evil. This book attempts to set Tolkien alongside both his contemporaries and ancient authors, and how he used similar literary devices in order to express his desire to create a "mythology for England."
Tolkien S Theology Of Beauty
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Author : Lisa Coutras
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-08-03
Tolkien S Theology Of Beauty written by Lisa Coutras and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-03 with Religion categories.
In this book, Lisa Coutras explores the structure and complexity of J.R.R. Tolkien’s narrative theology, synthesizing his Christian worldview with his creative imagination. She illustrates how, within the framework of a theological aesthetics, transcendental beauty is the unifying principle that integrates all aspects of Tolkien’s writing, from pagan despair to Christian joy. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Christianity is often held in an unsteady tension with the pagan despair of his mythic world. Some critics portray these as incompatible, while Christian analysis tends to oversimplify the presence of religious symbolism. This polarity of opinion testifies to the need for a unifying interpretive lens. The fact that Tolkien saw his own writing as “religious” and “Catholic,” yet was preoccupied with pagan mythology, nature, language, and evil, suggests that these areas were wholly integrated with his Christian worldview. Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty examines six structural elements, demonstrating that the author’s Christianity is deeply embedded in the narrative framework of his creative imagination.
Tolkien Race And Racism In Middle Earth
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Author : Robert Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-04-15
Tolkien Race And Racism In Middle Earth written by Robert Stuart and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-15 with Fiction categories.
Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated by others. This book presents an analysis of Tolkien’s works for conceptions of race, both racist and anti-racist. It begins by demonstrating that Tolkien was a racialist, in that his mythology is established on the basis of different races with different characteristics, and then poses the key question “Was Tolkien racist?” Robert Stuart engages the discourse and research associated with the ways in which racism and anti-racism relate Tolkien to his fascist and imperialist contemporaries and to twenty-first-century neo-Nazis and White Supremacists—including White Supremacy, genocide, blood-and-soil philology, anti-Semitism, and aristocratic racism. Addressing a major gap in the field of Tolkien studies, Stuart focuses on race, racisms and the Tolkien legendarium.
Musical Scores And The Eternal Present
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Author : Chiara Bertoglio
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-08-31
Musical Scores And The Eternal Present written by Chiara Bertoglio and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-31 with Religion categories.
Music is played and heard in time, yet it is also embodied in space by musical scores. The observation of a musical score turns time into space and allows musicians to embrace the flow of time in a single glance. This experience constitutes a symbol for the Eternal Present, the simultaneous knowledge of all time outside time. This book analyzes the implications of this view through a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, linking theology, philosophy, literature, and music. It also studies how this theme has been foreshadowed in the writings of Dante and J. R. R. Tolkien, demonstrating the connections between their masterpieces and the aesthetics of their times. The result is a fascinating itinerary through the history of culture, thought, and music, but also a deeply theological and spiritual experience.
The Power Of The Ring
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Author : Stratford Caldecott
language : en
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
Release Date : 2005
The Power Of The Ring written by Stratford Caldecott and has been published by Crossroad Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Power of the Ring is the first book to show how Catholic themes of quest, devotion, and forgiveness are, as Tolkien said, at the very heart of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The Gospel According To Tolkien
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Author : Ralph C. Wood
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2003
The Gospel According To Tolkien written by Ralph C. Wood and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age--absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. Readers from ages 8 to 80 keep turning to Tolkien because here, in this magical kingdom, they are immersed in depth after depth of significance and meaning--perceiving the Hope that can be found amidst despair, the Charity that overcomes vengeance, and the Faith that springs from the strange power of weakness. The Gospel According to Tolkien examines biblical and Christian themes that are found in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Follow Ralph Wood as he takes us through the theological depths of Tolkien's literary legacy.
Tolkien S Sacramental Vision
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Author : Craig Bernthal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-06-14
Tolkien S Sacramental Vision written by Craig Bernthal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
One of Tolkien's great appeals to readers is that he offers a world replete with meaning at every level. To read and reread Tolkien is to share his sense of wonder and holiness, to be invited into the presence of a "beauty beyond the circles of the world." It is to fall in love with a universe that has a beginning and an end, where good and bad are not subjective choices, but objective realities; a created order full of grace, though damaged by sin, in which friendship is the seedbed of the virtues, and where the greatest warriors finally become the greatest healers. A correspondent once told J. R. R. Tolkien that his work seemed illumined "by an invisible lamp." That lamp is the Church, and its light is the imaginative sensibility that we live in a sacramental world. This new book by the author of The Trial of Man examines in depth the influence of Catholic sacramentality on the thought and work of Tolkien, with major emphasis on The Lord of the Rings, but including his literary essays, epistolary poem "Mythopoeia," short story "Leaf by Niggle," and The Silmarillion. Here is a signal contribution to a deeper understanding of Tolkien, whose mythological world is meant to "recover" the meaning of our own as a grace-filled place, pointing toward its Creator.
Secret Fire
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Author : Stratford Caldecott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Secret Fire written by Stratford Caldecott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shows how Tolkien succeeded in re-opening the world of the imagination for theological inspiration.
J R R Tolkien S Sanctifying Myth
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Author : Bradley J. Birzer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-08-29
J R R Tolkien S Sanctifying Myth written by Bradley J. Birzer and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
With a new introduction by the author Peter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative creation to the masses. Yet, for most readers and viewers, the underlying meaning of Middle-earth has remained obscure. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with this fresh study. In J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, Birzer reveals the surprisingly specific religious symbolism that permeates Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He also explores the social and political views that motivated the Oxford don, ultimately situating Tolkien within the Christian humanist tradition represented by Thomas More and T.S. Eliot, Dante and C.S. Lewis. Birzer argues that through the genre of myth Tolkien created a world that is essentially truer than the one we think we see around us everyday, a world that transcends the colorless disenchantment of our postmodern age.