Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography Gifts for Him Stephanie Gray Connors engages both

Stephanie Gray Connors engages both the mind and the heart in answering these increasingly urgent questions

It was the book that set a young atheist named C

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Kreeft writes with the wit of Chesterton and the moral fire of Dostoevsky

Drawing from ancient classics like the Odyssey and the Aeneid and medieval masterpieces like Beowulf and the Divine Comedy

Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography Gifts for Him Stephanie Gray Connors engages bothTolkien described The Lord of the Rings as a fundamentally religious and Catholic work and declared, I am a Christian (which can be deduced from my stories). Yet he insisted his writings were not allegories, and Middle earth is loved by millions who do not share his religious beliefs. How were his faith and his fiction related? Holly Ordway answers that question biographically, focusing on Tolkiens spiritual development, a dramatic story that previous