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Light Beyond All Shadow - Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work (Hardcover)
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Light Beyond All Shadow - Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work (Hardcover)
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What forms can religious experience take in a world without cult or
creed? Organized religion is notably absent from J. R. R. Tolkien's
Secondary Universe of elves, dwarves, men and hobbits despite the
author's own deep Catholic faith. Tolkien stated that his goal was
'sub-creating' a universe whose natural form of religion would not
directly contradict Catholic theology. Essays in Light Beyond All
Shadows examine the full sweep of Tolkien's legendarium, not only
The Lord of the Rings but also The Hobbit, The Silmarillion and The
History of Middle-Earth series plus Peter Jackson's film trilogy.
Contributions to Light Beyond All Shadows probe both the mind of
the maker and the world he made to uncover some of his fictional
strategies, such as communicating through imagery. They suggest
that Tolkien's Catholic imagination was shaped by the visual appeal
of his church's worship and iconography. They seek other influences
in St. Ignatius Loyola's meditation technique and St. Philip Neri's
'Mediterranean' style of Catholicism. They propose that Tolkien
communicates his story through Biblical typology familiar in the
Middle Ages as well as mythic imagery with both Christian and pagan
resonances. They defend his 'comedy of grace' from charges of
occultism and Manichaean dualism. They analyze Tolkien's Christian
friends the Inklings as a supportive literary community. They show
that within Tolkien's world, Nature is the Creator's first book of
revelation. Like its earlier companion volume, The Ring and the
Cross, edited by Paul E. Kerry, scholarship gathered in Light
Beyond All Shadows aids appreciation of what is real, meaningful,
and truthful in Tolkien's work.
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