The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings

The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings is a collection of essays about themes of Christianity and paganism in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It was overseen by Paul E. Kerry (co-editor of Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work the following year) and published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in May 2013.
==Essays==
===Part I: The Ring===
*Ronald Hutton, "The Pagan Tolkien"
*Nils Ivar Agøy, "The Christian Tolkien: A Response to Ronald Hutton"
*Stephen Morillo, "The Entwives: Investigating the Spritual Core of The Lord of the Rings"
*John R. Holmes, "'Like Heathen Kings': Religion as Palimpsest in Tolkien's fiction"
*Ralph C. Wood, "Confronting the World's Weirdness: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin"
*Catherine Madsen, "Eru Erased: The Minimalist Cosmology of The Lord of the Rings"
*Chris Mooney, "The Ring and the Cross: How J.R.R. Tolkien Became a Christian Writer"
===Part II: The Cross===
*Carson L. Holloway, "Redeeming Sub-Creation"
*Jason Boffetti, "Catholic Scholar, Catholic Sub-Creator"
*Michael Tomko, "'An Age Comes On': J.R.R. Tolkien and the English Catholic Sense of History"
*Joseph Pearce, "The Lord of the Rings and the Catholic Understanding of Community"
*Paul E. Kerry, "Tracking Catholic Influence in The Lord of the Rings"
*Marjorie Burns, "Saintly and Distant Mothers"
*Bradley J. Birzer, "The 'Last Battle' as a Johannine Ragnarok: Tolkien and the Universal"
==External links==
*The Ring and the Cross at Barnes & Noble
*The Ring and the Cross at Amazon.com
*Review by Pieter Collier at tolkienlibrary.com
== See also ==
* The Philosophy of Tolkien
* Tolkien and Religion: Like an Invisible Lamp
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