Tolkien among the Theologians

<p>Can Tolkien be considered a theologian? In this collection of essays scholars bring Tolkien into conversation with theologians from the patristic era to the 20<sup>th</sup> Century: Augustine Boethius Francis of Assisi Thomas Aquinas John Calvin John Henry Newman G.K. Chesterton Hans Urs von Balthasar John Paul II and the Birmingham Oratorians. Far from siloing off his expertise into a single field Tolkien was an interdisciplinary thinker with a synthetic mind that drew from the full breadth of the Great Tradition to construct a compelling account of God and all things in relation to God.</p>