Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth

Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth

by Austin M. Freeman
Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth

Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth

by Austin M. Freeman

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Overview

J. R. R. Tolkien was many things: English Catholic, father and husband, survivor of two world wars, Oxford professor, and author. But he was also a theologian. Tolkien's writings exhibit a coherent theology of God and his works, but Tolkien did not present his views with systematic arguments. Rather, he expressed theology through story. In Tolkien Dogmatics, Austin M. Freeman inspects Tolkien's entire corpus-The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and beyond-as a window into his theology. In his stories, lectures, and letters, Tolkien creatively and carefully engaged with his Christian faith. Tolkien Dogmatics is a comprehensive manual of Tolkien's theological thought arranged in traditional systematic theology categories, with sections on God, revelation, creation, evil, Christ and salvation, the church, and last things. Through Tolkien's imagination, we reencounter our faith.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683596677
Publisher: Lexham Press
Publication date: 11/16/2022
Pages: 432
Sales rank: 259,755
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Austin M. Freeman (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is a lecturer at Houston Baptist University and a classical school teacher.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Prolegomena 1

I God 19

II Revelation 40

III Creation 65

IV Humanity 97

V Angels 124

VI The Fall 155

VII Evil and Sin 183

VIII Satan and Demons 213

IX Christ and Salvation 235

X The Church 260

XI The Christian Life 286

XII Last Things 309

Glossary of Names and Terms from Tolkien's Fiction 343

Bibliography 349

Notes 371

Name Index 455

Subject Index 461

Scripture Index 475

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