Donald T.
Lewis (Baltimore: Square Halo Books, 2016), and of numerous articles, poems, and reviews in publications such as Christianity Today, National Review, Touchstone, Modern Reformation, Christian Research Journal, The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Societ y, Philosophia Christi, Christian Scholar\'s Review, SEVEN: An Anglo-American Review, etc..
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A past president of the International Society of Christian Apologetics and an internationally known Inklings scholar, he is the author of ten other books, most recently Deeper Magic: The Theology behind the Writings of C.
An ordained minister in the Evangelical Free Church of America with many years of pastoral experience, he has spent several summers doing pastoral training in East Africa and India for Church Planting International.
Forrest Scholar and Professor of English at Toccoa Falls College.
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Williams (BA, Taylor University
MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Ph.
D., University of Georgia) is R.
About the Author: Donald T.
This book will help readers appreciate the ways in which a biblical Worldview reports Tolkien\'s work, to the end that their faith may be confirmed in strength, focused in understanding, deepened in joy, and honed in its ability to communicate the Gospel.
An Encouraging Thought elucidates the ways in which Tolkien\'s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are informed by and communicate to a biblical worldview. "I want to do that " His hope is that his readers will catch that same vision from this book. "You can do that?" Williams thought as a young man not yet exposed to any Christian who was a serious thinker.
Not only do explicitly Christian themes underlie the plot structure of The Lord of the Rings, but in essays such as "On Fairie Stories" Tolkien shows that he did not only believe the Gospel on Sunday but treated it as true of the rest of the week and used his commitment to that truth as the key to further insights in his work as a student of literature.
Williams learned a lot about the Christian Worldview from Francis Schaeffer and CS Lewis, but it was actually Tolkien who first showed him that such a thing exists and is an essential component of maturing faith.
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