Tolkien's Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle Earth

Tolkien's Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle EarthOne 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

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Subversion of Tradition

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a true dark night of the soul

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"There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful

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