Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography Gifts for Him Since the first century

Since the first century

as if it were around Jonah’s own troubled ship

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

Augustine of Hippo

Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography Gifts for Him Since the first centuryTolkien 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