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| author=Jonathan S. McIntosh | | author=Jonathan S. McIntosh | ||
| publisher=Angelico Press | | publisher=Angelico Press | ||
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{{blockquote|J. R. R. Tolkien was a profoundly metaphysical thinker, and one of the most formative influences on his imagination, according to this new study of his works, was the great thirteenth-century theologian, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas]. Structured around Tolkien’s Middle-earth creation myth, the ''[[Ainulindalë]]'', ''The Flame Imperishable'' follows the thought of Aquinas as a guide in laying bare the deeper foundations of many of the more familiar themes from Tolkien’s [[legendarium]], including [[sub-creation]], free will, evil, and [[eucatastrophe]]. More than merely using Aquinas to illuminate Tolkien, however, this study concludes that, through its appropriation of many of the philosophical and theological insights of Aquinas, what Tolkien’s literary opus achieves is an important and unique landmark in the history of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomism Thomism] itself, offering an imaginative and powerful contemporary retrieval, interpretation, and application of Thomistic metaphysics for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.}} | {{blockquote|J. R. R. Tolkien was a profoundly metaphysical thinker, and one of the most formative influences on his imagination, according to this new study of his works, was the great thirteenth-century theologian, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas]. Structured around Tolkien’s Middle-earth creation myth, the ''[[Ainulindalë]]'', ''The Flame Imperishable'' follows the thought of Aquinas as a guide in laying bare the deeper foundations of many of the more familiar themes from Tolkien’s [[legendarium]], including [[sub-creation]], free will, evil, and [[eucatastrophe]]. More than merely using Aquinas to illuminate Tolkien, however, this study concludes that, through its appropriation of many of the philosophical and theological insights of Aquinas, what Tolkien’s literary opus achieves is an important and unique landmark in the history of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomism Thomism] itself, offering an imaginative and powerful contemporary retrieval, interpretation, and application of Thomistic metaphysics for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.<ref name=Angelico/>}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:30, 21 August 2022
| The Flame Imperishable Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie | |
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| Author | Jonathan S. McIntosh |
| Publisher | Angelico Press |
| Released | December 2017[1] |
| Format | Hardcover/Paperback |
| Pages | 306 |
| ISBN | 978-16213154 |
The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie is a 2017 study of J.R.R. Tolkien on Metaphysics.
Contents[edit | edit source]
- Introduction
- One: The Metaphysics of Eru
- Two: The Metaphysics of the Ainur
- Three: The Metaphysics of the Music and Vision
- Four: The Metaphysics of the Valar
- Five: The Metaphysics of Melkor
- Final theme: Of Metaphysics and Myth
- Bibliography
- Index of proper names
From the publisher[edit | edit source]
J. R. R. Tolkien was a profoundly metaphysical thinker, and one of the most formative influences on his imagination, according to this new study of his works, was the great thirteenth-century theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas. Structured around Tolkien’s Middle-earth creation myth, the Ainulindalë, The Flame Imperishable follows the thought of Aquinas as a guide in laying bare the deeper foundations of many of the more familiar themes from Tolkien’s legendarium, including sub-creation, free will, evil, and eucatastrophe. More than merely using Aquinas to illuminate Tolkien, however, this study concludes that, through its appropriation of many of the philosophical and theological insights of Aquinas, what Tolkien’s literary opus achieves is an important and unique landmark in the history of Thomism itself, offering an imaginative and powerful contemporary retrieval, interpretation, and application of Thomistic metaphysics for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Flame Imperishable", Angelico Press (accessed 21 August 2022)
