The Ring and the Cross
The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings is an anthology of scholarly essays on the influence of Christianity in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. Its companion volume is Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work.
Contents
- Introduction (Paul E. Kerry)
- Part I: The Ring
- — "The Pagan Tolkien" (Ronald Hutton)
- — "The Christian Tolkien: A Response to Ronald Hutton" (Nils Ivar Agøy)
- — "The Entwives: Investigating the Spritual Core of The Lord of the Rings" (Stephen Morillo)
- — "'Like Heathen Kings': Religion as Palimpsest in Tolkien's Fiction" (John R. Holmes)
- — "Confronting the World's Weirdness: J. R. R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin" (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)
- Part II: The Cross
- — "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 Ragnarok: Tolkien and the Universal" (Bradley J. Birzer)
Referencias
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