Creation and Beauty in Tolkien's Catholic Vision

Creation and Beauty in Tolkien's Catholic Vision
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781532641107
ISBN-13 : 1532641109
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Book Synopsis Creation and Beauty in Tolkien's Catholic Vision by : Michael John Halsall

Download or read book Creation and Beauty in Tolkien's Catholic Vision written by Michael John Halsall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book invites readers into Tolkien’s world through the lens of a variety of philosophers, all of whom owe a rich debt to the Neoplatonic philosophical tradition. It places Tolkien’s mythology against a wider backdrop of Catholic philosophy and asks serious questions about the nature of creation, the nature of God, what it means to be good, and the problem of evil. Halsall sets Tolkien alongside both his contemporaries and ancient authors, revealing his careful use of literary devices inspired by them to craft his own “mythology for England.”


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