Search query: worldview of tolkien

Product: The Shadow Among The Stars: Book One of the Dread Naught Trilogy
Description: In the far future, humanity has overcome many of its structural and prejudicial shackles. We have spread through the stars to explore and learn, unhindered by many of the mistakes that had plagued our civilizations and institutions for so long.

Alongside the mighty Astral Marine Corps, Humanity's future is safeguarded by the Colonial Special Operations Executive. The CSOE protects Humankind from disasters of every sort through diplomatic, logistical, and sometimes subversive means. For the most important and trying tasks (such as flash point crises and the assessment of little-understood dangers) the CSOE deploys an Operative, an eminently capable individual trained to handle almost any eventuality. Though few in number, they are the most well-known and lauded portion of the venerable organization.

The greatest of the CSOE's Operatives is Dame Bryluen Branok. Her face is known from the Qixing Commonwealth to the Ly Aulth Stellar Confederacy, and her name has long been a byword for courage and heroism. She is simultaneously an iconic inspiration to Humanity, and one of the most feared executors of its will.

When a poorly understood threat strikes a remote research outpost, Bryluen is the prime choice to investigate. Despite decades of experience even she has seen nothing like the foe she encounters, and the aftermath of the attack opens up a bevy of questions. Soon the CSOE charges Bryluen with a task for which she was born: to gather a unique strike team and confront a danger that threatens the very existence of civilization.
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Product: Horizon: Bone Universe, Book 3
Description: A winged society faces the threat of ultimate extinction in the thrilling finale to Fran Wilde's Bone Universe fantasy series

Unbound Worlds' Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books of September 2017

A city of living bone towers crumbles to the ground, and danger abounds. Kirit Densira has lost everything she loved the most - her mother, her home, and the skies above. Nat Brokenwings - once Kirit's brother long before the rebellion tore them apart - is still trying to save his family in the face of catastrophe. They will need to band together once more to ensure not just their own survival but that of their entire community.

Bone Universe

Updraft

Cloudbound

Horizon
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Product: Box Set of Biblical Imagination & Apologetics: The Imagination of God & God Against the Gods (Storytelling, Evangelism, Art and the Bible)
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Product: The Imagination of God: Art, Creativity and Truth in the Bible
Description: Want to Know God More? Use Your Imagination

This book was previously released with the title, Word Pictures: Knowing God Through Story and Imagination.

Artist and screenwriter Brian Godawa used to revel in his ability to argue the truth of the Gospel, often intellectually crushing his opponents in the process.

But winning an argument does not equal persuading people to follow Jesus. So what’s missing?

Through prayer and searching the Scriptures, Godawa realized that while God cares deeply for rationality, it wasn’t the only tool he used to reach people with his truth.

He discovered that storytelling, visual images, and other art in the Bible were central to Biblical evangelism and Christian apologetics because they could go places reason could never go: into the imagination and the heart.

The Bible is a Work of Art

Weaving historical insight, pop culture and personal narrative throughout, Godawa reveals the importance God places on imagination and creativity in the Scriptures.

You’ll get a biblical foundation to pursue imagination, creativity, beauty, wonder and mystery in your faith.

You’ll learn what C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien understood: The power of poetry, parables and visual art found in God's Word.

For any Christian who wants to learn Biblical evangelism and Christian apologetics in a postmodern context, this book will help you find a path between the two extremes of intellectualized faith and anti-intellectual faith by recovering a biblical balance between reason and imagination.
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Product: The Naming: The First Book of Pellinor (Pellinor Series 1)
Description: "An epic fantasy in the Tolkien tradition, with a strong girl hero. . . . I couldn’t put it down!" – Tamora Pierce
Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child when her family is destroyed in war. She doesn’t yet know she has inherited a powerful gift, one that marks her as a member of the noble School of Pellinor and enables her to see the world as no other can. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon, that her true identity and extraordinary destiny unfold. Now, she and her mysterious teacher must embark on a treacherous, uncertain journey through a time and place where the forces of darkness wield an otherworldly terror.
The first book in a projected quartet, Alison Croggon’s epic about Maerad and her remarkable yet dangerous gift is a beautiful, unforgettable tale. Presented as a new translation of an ancient text, The Naming evokes the rich and complex landscape of Annar, a legendary world just waiting to be discovered.
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Product: AN ENCOURAGING THOUGHT: The Christian Worldview in the Writings of J. R. R. Tolkien
Brand: Christian Publishing House
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Product: Frodo's Journey: Discover The Hidden Meaning Of The Lord Of The Rings
Brand: Saint Benedict Press
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Product: To Create a World
Description: "We humans have a need, a desire for something magical, for something otherworldly. And that desire was once sated. They used to live among us, the creatures of our dreams and nightmares. We used to dwell in the midst of great adventures and heroism, battles between good and evil.”
“Then what happened to it all?” Tom asked in a quiet voice.
The old man shrugged. “People found a way to deny the need, most of them, or to fill it with other things, distractions. And so that other world, that other realm has shrunk. It used to be everywhere, and now it is almost impossible to find.
“I can see you don’t believe me,” Randolph sighed, “but you don’t have to believe me. All you have to do is keep going deeper into the forest. Find the magician, and he’ll cure your sister’s illness, and you can go back to living here in the hills. It couldn’t be easier.”

Tom Gunn loves reading fantasy books and having adventures on his family’s land in the hills. But when his sister becomes mysteriously sick and their parents decide to move down to the city, Tom feels like his life has had all the adventure sucked out of it.
Then one day Tom runs into their gruff old neighbour Mr Randolph, who tells him about a hidden magical world, and a magician who can cure his sister. But Tom arrives to find the world all but empty, and the magician long gone. Now it’s up to Tom to put things right, to bring back the magic and adventure and somehow save his sister!
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Product: The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings
Brand: Ignatius Press
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Product: Inklings on Philosophy and Worldview: Inspired by C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and J.R.R. Tolkien (Engaged Schools Curriculum)
Brand: Wander
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Product: Inklings on Philosophy and Worldview Guidebook: Inspired by C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and J.R.R. Tolkien (Engaged Schools Curriculum)
Brand: Wander
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Product: On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis
Brand: Moody Publishers
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Product: A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918
Brand: Thomas Nelson
Thomas Nelson
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Product: Reflections from Plato's Cave: Essays in Evangelical Philosophy
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Product: Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Brand: Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press USA
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Product: The Great Tower of Elfland: The Mythopoeic Worldview of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald
Brand: Kent State University Press
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