| #384136 in Books | 2014-06-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.79 x6.00l,1.02 | File type: PDF | 316 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Fine, fine book|By Timothy E. Rapson|Fine, fine book. Bernthal knows his stuff. I am fairly familiar with both Roman Catholic theology and Tolkien, but I feel a fool compared to the author. He clearly loves his subjects, melds them, molds them, reveals them. The connection is not perfect, I don't think this book claims it is. But, there is a vibrancy in Tolkien's fiction that c|From the Back Cover|"Craig Bernthal demonstrates that Tolkien's literary vision was profoundly and concretely sacramental, and his magnificent retelling of the entire Cosmic Story shaped by the Church's most basic theological claims and its quite specific
One of Tolkien's great appeals to readers is that he offers a world replete with meaning at every level. To read and reread Tolkien is to share his sense of wonder and holiness, to be invited into the presence of a "beauty beyond the circles of the world." It is to fall in love with a universe that has a beginning and an end, where good and bad are not subjective choices, but objective realities; a created order full of grace, though damaged by sin, in which friendship i...
You easily download any file type for your device.Tolkien's Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle Earth | Craig Bernthal. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
