June/July 2016: The Catholic World of J. R. R. Tolkien
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“A Sacramental View of the World: Tolkien and My Conversion” by Daniel Bennett
I have finally discovered the answer to what
struck me at the time, many months hence,
as an evasive, yet undeniable fact: J. R. R.
Tolkien, without saying one word about the
Catholic Church per se, had played no small
part in my conversion. C. S. Lewis lucidly
describes this method of teaching Christian
doctrines through fairy tales in
a letter to the Anglican nun
Sister Penelope: “Any amount
of theology can now be smuggled
into people’s minds under
cover of romance without their
knowing it.”
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