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The Fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien

Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation

By: Robert J. Dobie

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The Fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien

Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation

By: Robert J. Dobie

At the heart of Tolkienian fantasy is "recovery," a "cleaning of the windows" of our perception that we may learn to see the world again in all its strange and bewildering beauty. And, for Tolkien, to recover the world anew is to recover a sense of the world as a meaningful act of creation by a living and loving Creator. How does Tolkien accomplish this? Through "sub-creation" or mythopoeia, the "fashioning of myth." For it is in creating an imaginary world ourselves through poetry, fairy-story and myth that we come to "see" our "primary world" as itself an act of creation. In short, mythopoetic creation, far from being "lies breathed through silver," uncovers for us the truth of our world as a story of creation. This book is the first sustained attempt to show not only the centrality of recovery to Tolkien's fantasy but the way in which his fantasy affects that primal recovery in every reader. In doing so, this book not only reveals the marvelous philosophical and theological riches that underlie Tolkien's fantasy but shows how his mythopoetic fiction allows the recovery and enactment of these riches in our own lives. In these pages we learn how Tolkien's fantasy addresses fundamental problems such as the relation of language to reality, the nature of evil, the distinction between time and eternity and its relation to death and immortality, the paradox of necessity and free will in human action and the grounds for providential hope in a "happy ending." Indeed, The Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien shows how for Tolkien fantasy has within itself a healing power through which intellectual, moral and existential paradoxes are resolved and our intellectual and perceptual faculties are made whole again so that they may participate with renewed vigor in the life-giving work of creation of every sort.

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Logos and Revelation

Ibn 'Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Mystical Hermeneutics

By: Robert J. Dobie

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Logos and Revelation

Ibn 'Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Mystical Hermeneutics

By: Robert J. Dobie

Logos and Revelation looks closely at the writings of two of the most prominent medieval mystical writers: the Muslim, Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) and the Christian Meister Eckhart (1260-1328).

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Thinking Through Revelation

By: Robert J. Dobie

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Thinking Through Revelation

By: Robert J. Dobie

Navigating the seemingly competing claims of human reason and divine revelation to truth is without a doubt one of the central problems of medieval philosophy. Medieval thinkers argued a whole gamut of positions on the proper relation of religious faith to human reason. Thinking Through Revelation attempts to ask deeper questions: what possibilities for philosophical thought did divine revelation open up for medieval thinkers? How did the contents of the sacred scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam put into question established philosophical assumptions? But most fundamentally, how did not merely the content of the sacred books but the very mode in which revelation itself is understood to come to us – as a book “sent down” from on high, as a covenant between God and his people, or as incarnate person - create or foreclose possibilities for the resolution of the philosophical problems that the Abrahamic revelations themselves raised?

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Catholic University of America Press

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Logos and Revelation

Ibn 'Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Mystical Hermeneutics

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Ibn 'Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Mystical Hermeneutics

By: Robert J. Dobie

Logos and Revelation looks closely at the writings of two of the most prominent medieval mystical writers: the Muslim, Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) and the Christian Meister Eckhart (1260-1328).

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The Fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien

The Fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien

Logos and Revelation

Logos and Revelation

Thinking Through Revelation

Thinking Through Revelation

Logos and Revelation

Logos and Revelation

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