Chesterton and Tolkien as theologians : the fantasy of the real
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Chesterton and Tolkien as theologians : the fantasy of the real
（T & T Clark theology）
T&T Clark, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-177) and index
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Description
This book takes Chesterton's 'natural theology' through fairytales seriously as a theological project appropriate to an intellectual attempt to return to faith in a secular age. It argues that Tolkien's fiction makes sense also as the work of a Catholic writer steeped in Chestertonian ideas and sharing his literary-theological poetics. While much writing on religious fantasy moves quickly to talk about wonder, Milbank shows that this has to be hard won and that Chesterton is more akin to the modernist writers of the early twentieth-century who felt quite dislocated from the past.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1:'We have all forgotten our names:'
- Chapter 2:'We see everything from behind and it looks brutal:' the Grotesque
- Chapter 3:'Whatever I am, I am not myself:' Paradox
- Chapter 4:'Disenchanting the will:' Magic and Demystification
- Chapter 5:'Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?' Gift-exchange
- Conclusion 'Make it New'.
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