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  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
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