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Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians (Paperback)
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Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians (Paperback)
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This book takes Chesterton's 'natural theology' through fairytales
seriously as a theological project appropriate to an intellectual
attempt to return to faith in a secular age. It argues that
Tolkien's fiction makes sense also as the work of a Catholic writer
steeped in Chestertonian ideas and sharing his literary-theological
poetics. While much writing on religious fantasy moves quickly to
talk about wonder, Milbank shows that this has to be hard won and
that Chesterton is more akin to the modernist writers of the early
twentieth-century who felt quite dislocated from the past. His
favoured tropes of paradox, defamiliarization and the grotesque
have much in common with writers like T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and
James Joyce and their use of the demotic as well as the 'mythic
method'. Using Chesterton's literary rhetoric as a frame, the book
sets out to chart a redemptive poetics that first decentres the
reader from his habitual perception of the world, then dramatizes
his self-alienation through the grotesque, before finding in that
very alienation a sort of pharmakon through paradox and an embrace
of difference. The next step is to change one's vision of the world
beyond the self through magic which, paradoxically, is the means by
which one can reconnect with the physical world and remove the
fetishism and commodification of the object. Chesterton's theology
of gift is the means in which this magic becomes real and people
and things enter into reciprocal relations that reconnect them with
the divine.
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