Ralph C. Wood, Ph.D. is a writer, scholar, and professor of theology and literature who has written books and articles concerning J.R.R. Tolkien's writings and Christianity, in addition to C.S. Lewis and other topics. He currently teaches in the Department of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, U.S.A.
Books & articles (selected)[]
- The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth (2003)
- Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015)
- Review of Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings in Christian Century, vol. 96 (1979)
- Review of Verlyn Flieger's A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie in An Anglo-American Literary Review, vol. 16 (1999)
- Review of Tom Shippey's J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century in Christian Century, vol. 118 (2001)
- "Teaching and Living and Dying 'As If Nothing Had Happened': The Example of J.R.R. Tolkien" in Christianity and Literature, vol. 51 (2002)
- "Good and Evil in Middle-earth" in Christian History, Issue 78 (2003)
- "Frodo's Faith: Middle-earth truths" in Christian Century, vol. 120 (2003)
- "What Tolkien Knew — and Believed" in Pages (2003)
- "Frodo's Forgiveness" in Baylor University's Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics (2004)
- "J.R.R. Tolkien: Postmodern Visionary of Hope" in Emily Griesinger and Mark Eaton's The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World (2006)
- "Tolkien's Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean" in Trevor Hart and Ivan Khovacs' Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature, and Theology (2007)
- "J.R.R. Tolkien: Our Post-modern Contemporary" in The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference (2008)
- "Confronting the World's Weirdness: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin" in Paul E. Kerry's The Ring and the Cross (2013)
- "Sad, but Not Unhappy: J.R.R. Tolkien's Sorrowful Vision of Joy", for ABC (Religion & Ethics branch) (2014)
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