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| Resource: |
Books (P42055.1000) The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-Earth
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| Author: |
Ralph C. Wood |
| Publisher: |
Westminster John Knox Press , 2005 |
| Length: |
224 pages |
| Heading: |
115 — Faith
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| Subjects: |
Faith; Theology, Doctrinal / Popular works |
| Location: |
PR6039.O32 L6386 2003 |
| # Copies: |
1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: |
9780664226107
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| Description: |
FROM THE PUBLISHER: Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age--reading all 1500 of its pages with absorbed interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. 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 about the victories that the forces of evil have already won and seem destined still to win. Yet readers from ages 8 to 80 keep turning to this work because here 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--not from the seizing and wielding of destructive might, but from the utter foreswearing of it for the sake of friendship and fidelity. |
| Age Groups: |
High School; Young Adult; Adult (30-55)
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