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The ring and the cross [electronic resource] : Christianity and the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien / edited by Paul E. Kerry.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781611470659 (electronic bk.)
  • 161147065X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ring and the cross.DDC classification:
  • 823/.912 22
LOC classification:
  • PR6039.O32 Z8136 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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 Agøy -- Can we still have a pagan Tolkien? : a reply to Nils Ivar Agøy / 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 Hùrin / 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 Ragnarök : Tolkien and the universal / Bradley J. Birzer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Agøy -- Can we still have a pagan Tolkien? : a reply to Nils Ivar Agøy / 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 Hùrin / 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 Ragnarök : Tolkien and the universal / Bradley J. Birzer.

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