Flame Imperishable (McIntosh)

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Author: Jonathan S. McIntosh ISBN: 9781621383154 Binding: paperback Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic J. R. R. Tolkien was a profoundly metaphysical thinker, and one of the most f ormative influences on his imagination, according to this new study of his works, was the great thirteenth-century theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas. Structured around Tolkien’s Middle-earth creation myth, the Ainulindale, The Flame Imperishable follows the thought of Aquinas as a guide in laying bare the deeper foundations of many of the more familiar themes from Tolkien’s legendarium, including such notions as sub-creation, free will, evil, and eucatastrophe. Show more