Seeking the Lord of Middle Earth
Seeking the Lord of Middle Earth

Author: Jeffrey L. Morrow

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-06-07

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1532600054

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J. R. R. Tolkien, the beloved author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, brings to his work a great treasure--his Christian faith. Tolkien's literary works are so popular in part because, in some sense, they pertain to the real world. This present volume is an attempt to understand better the deep Christian influences on his work but also to explore the relevance of Tolkien's work for theology today. After examining Tolkien's fiction in order better to appreciate Christian influences, this volume takes a closer look at Tolkien's theology of fantasy, his response to the more skeptical origins of religion research, and applies his work to contemporary questions about method in biblical studies. Tolkien's Christianity informed all he wrote. Moreover, his own theology of fantasy holds great promise for contemporary theology.

The Rigveda
The Rigveda

Author: Stephanie W. Jamison

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 1725

ISBN-13: 0199370184

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The first complete English translation in over a century of the Rigveda, the oldest Sanskrit text. Its thousand hymns, of remarkable poetic complexity and religious sophistication, are crucial to the understanding of the Indo-Iranian oral tradition from which they emerged and the rich flowering of Indian religious and literary expressions that followed it.

Myth as Argument
Myth as Argument

Author: Laurie L. Patton

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 3110812754

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RGVV (History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)—contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning—and engages them from a critical historical perspective. The series publishes monographs and thematically focused edited volumes on specific topics and cases as well as comparative work across historical periods from the ancient world to the modern era.

T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions
T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions

Author: Cleo McNelly Kearns

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-06-26

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780521324397

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An exploration of Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion.