{"product_id":"pagan-saints-in-middle-earth-paperback","title":"Pagan Saints in Middle-earth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaudio A. Testi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVerlyn Flieger\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eTom Shippey\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs Tolkien's work Christian or pagan? This question has intrigued readers and scholars ever since \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e has been published. Even today this important problem has not been given the full critical attention it deserves, and the present volume is an attempt to provide an answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume contains a comprehensive bibliography on the subject, detailed indices, a foreword by Verlyn Flieger, and an afterword by Tom Shippey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaudio Antonio Testi graduated in Philosophy at the University of Bologna and received a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Philosophy at the Pontificia Università Lateranense. He is the President of the Philosophical Institute of Thomistic Studies, Vice President of AIST (Italian Association of Tolkien Studies), and at the Dominican Philosophical Study of Bologna he holds courses on Tolkien and on Formal Logic. As a scholar he has written 43 papers (published, among others, in \u003cem\u003eTolkien Studies\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHither Shore\u003c\/em\u003e), two books, and edited 15 volumes, two of them in collaboration with Roberto Arduini for Walking Tree Publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritical voices on the book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Testi] has brought his readers the best of both schools. He has shown how they work, and best of all, shown how they can work together.\"\u003cbr\u003e (Verlyn Flieger)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Both admirers and critics, however, have now been helped to a better and truer understanding of Tolkien's work by this admirable exposition, the deepest appreciation yet written of Tolkien's Catholicity, and one he himself would certainly have welcomed and approved.\"\u003cbr\u003e (Tom Shippey)\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53301151105331,"sku":"9783905703382","price":45.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/qvDOPY5GhC9783905703382.webp?v=1777507500","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/pagan-saints-in-middle-earth-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}