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The ring and the cross : Christianity and the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
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- ISBN: 1611470641
- ISBN: 9781611470642
- ISBN: 161147065X
- ISBN: 9781611470659
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (310 pages)
remote - Publisher: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, Ă2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.17 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : a historiography of Christian approaches to Tolkien's The lord of the rings / Paul E. Kerry -- The pagan Tolkien / Ronald Hutton -- The Christian Tolkien : a response to Ronald Hutton / Nils Ivar Ag˛y -- Can we still have a pagan Tolkien? : a reply to Nils Ivar Ag˛y / Ronald Hutton -- The Entwives : investigating the spiritual core of The lord of the rings / Stephen Morillo -- "Like heathen kings" : a religion as palimpsest in Tolkien's fiction / John R. Holmes -- Confronting the world's weirdness : J.R.R. Tolkien's The children of Háurin / Ralph C. Wood -- Eru erased : the minimalist cosmology of The lord of the rings / Catherine Madsen -- The ring and the cross : how J.R.R. Tolkien became a Christian writer / Chris Mooney -- Redeeming sub-creation / Carson L. Holloway -- Catholic scholar, Catholic sub-creator / Jason Boffetti -- "An age comes on" : J.R.R. Tolkien and the English Catholic sense of history / Michael Tomko -- The lord of the rings and the Catholic understanding of community / Joseph Pearce -- Tracking Catholic influence in The lord of the rings / Paul E. Kerry -- Saintly and distant mothers / Marjorie Burns -- The "last battle" as a Johannine Ragnarčok : Tolkien and the universal / Bradley J. Birzer. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted by subscription. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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