Ralph Wood - On Tolkien—The Lord of the Rings—A Book for our Time of Terror

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Ralph Wood, Professor of Theology and Literature, Baylor University

Ralph C. Wood, University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Texas A&M University-Commerce, as well as M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. From 1971-97 he taught on the faculty of Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he was the John Allen Easley Professor of Religion. At Baylor, he teaches in both the Great Texts program and the Department of Religion. He serves as an editor-at-large for the Christian Century and as a member of the editorial board of the Flannery O'Connor Review.

His major book, first published in 1988 and still in print from the University of Notre Dame Press, is entitled The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists (Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, John Updike, and Peter De Vries). He is also the author of Contending for the Faith: The Church's Engagement with Culture (Baylor, 2003); The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth (Westminster John Knox, 2004); and Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South (Eerdmans, 2004).
Sponsored by the Jerusalem and Athens Forum http://www.gordon.edu/jaf and Center for Christian Studies http://www.gordon.edu/ccs

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[CHRIS1974100]

Nice lecture im listening now

[polipoli8]

0:11 .....There's GORDON ---> GONDOR.... -.=

[SickOmega]

I never thought of reading as a religious experience, makes sense though.

[caramonmajere780817]

Great



[Gandalfgrey93]

Nerd!