The Good News of the Return of the King - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael T. JahoskyTheme:Religious Orientation/ChristianPublish date:2020-09-15Pages:244
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wipf & Stock PublishersISBN-13:9781725263130ISBN-10:1725263130UPC:9781725263130Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian Theology, Christian LivingBook Topic:Literature & the ArtsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.07Product ID:SCJ7VKMF0H
Although many people today reject Christianity for intellectual reasons, greater numbers of people are rejecting Christianity because it does not engage their imagination. Christians must not only demonstrate that the Christian worldview is true, but that it is also good, beautiful, and relevant. The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle-earth is a book that endeavors to show the truth, goodness, and beauty of Jesus Christ, the gospel, and the biblical metanarrative by engaging the imagination through J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as well as The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. In this book, I propose that J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is a story about what Jesus' parables are about: the good news about the return of the king. As a work of imaginative fiction similar to Jesus' parables, The Lord of the Rings can bypass both intellectual and imaginative objections to the gospel and pull back the ""veil of familiarity"" that obscures the gospel for many.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wipf & Stock PublishersISBN-13:9781725263130ISBN-10:1725263130UPC:9781725263130Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian Theology, Christian LivingBook Topic:Literature & the ArtsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.07Product ID:SCJ7VKMF0H
Michael T. Jahosky is an assistant professor of humanities at St. Petersburg College in Florida. He routinely incorporates the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien into his humanities classes' curriculums and this is his first book.
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