Light Beyond All Shadow, Religious Experience in Tolkien’s Work. Edited by Paul E. Kerry and Sandra Miesel

There are several dangers in presenting a collection of essays on Tolkien and religion. One, common to any collection of essays, is that of adherence to the declared central theme (made more difficult here by the fact that Tolkien, although his Catholicism is well-known, was not a religious writer i...

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Main Author: Murdoch, Brian (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2013
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 487-489
Review of:Light beyond all shadow (Madison, NJ [u.a.] : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2011) (Murdoch, Brian)
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Summary:There are several dangers in presenting a collection of essays on Tolkien and religion. One, common to any collection of essays, is that of adherence to the declared central theme (made more difficult here by the fact that Tolkien, although his Catholicism is well-known, was not a religious writer in anything like the same sense as C.S. Lewis). The other hazard, of which Sandra Miesel is aware in her introduction (p. 12), is that the huge corpus of Tolkien criticism increasingly raises the question of what else there is to be said.
ISSN:1477-4623
Contains:Enthalten in: Literature and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs045