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The Good News of the Return of the King
Michael T. Jahosky
其他書名
The Gospel in Middle-earth
出版Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020
主題Religion / Christian Living / GeneralReligion / Christianity / Literature & the ArtsReligion / Christian Theology / General
ISBN17252631309781725263130
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GlATEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Although many people today reject Christianity for intellectual reasons, greater numbers of people are rejecting Christianity because it does not engage their imagination. Christians must not only demonstrate that the Christian worldview is true, but that it is also good, beautiful, and relevant. The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle-earth is a book that endeavors to show the truth, goodness, and beauty of Jesus Christ, the gospel, and the biblical metanarrative by engaging the imagination through J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as well as The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. In this book, I propose that J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is a story about what Jesus' parables are about: the good news about the return of the king. As a work of imaginative fiction similar to Jesus' parables, The Lord of the Rings can bypass both intellectual and imaginative objections to the gospel and pull back the ""veil of familiarity"" that obscures the gospel for many.