Four Christian Fantasists: A Study of the Fantastic Writings of George MacDonald, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Richard Sturch
Cormarë Series No. 3
J.R.R.Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", it has long been recognized, was shaped and undergirded by his Christian beliefs. But he was not the only writer of fantasy to have a close relationship between his faith and his fiction. This book is a study of such relationships in four writers: Tolkien himself, his friends C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, and, from an earlier generation, George MacDonald. It seeks to look at their use of other worlds and other beings; at their attitudes towards 'escapism'; at the presence of symbolism and myth in their writings; at the themes and ideas they had in common; and at the extent to which their fiction has a value for Christian apologetics.
About the author:
Richard Sturch is an Anglican priest, a former lecturer in philosophy, and a long-standing member of the Tolkien and Charles Williams Societies (besides being Secretary of the latter).
Reviews of Four Christian Fantasists:
Review published in Amon Hen (bulletin of the Tolkien Society) No. 170 (July 2001).
Review published on Chrismon website (Evangelic magazine in German). in German | English translation
??? pages, Walking Tree Publishers 2001, second edition 2007, Cormarë No. 3, ISBN: 978-3-905703-04-7.
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