The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings

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The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings is a collection of essays about themes of Christianity and paganism in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It was overseen by Paul E. Kerry (co-editor of Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work the following year) and published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in May 2013.

Essays[]

Ronald Hutton, "The Pagan Tolkien"
Nils Ivar Agøy, "The Christian Tolkien: A Response to Ronald Hutton"
Stephen Morillo, "The Entwives: Investigating the Spritual Core of The Lord of the Rings"
John R. Holmes, "'Like Heathen Kings': Religion as Palimpsest in Tolkien's fiction"
Ralph C. Wood, "Confronting the World's Weirdness: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin"
Catherine Madsen, "Eru Erased: The Minimalist Cosmology of The Lord of the Rings"
Chris Mooney, "The Ring and the Cross: How J.R.R. Tolkien Became a Christian Writer"

Carson L. Holloway, "Redeeming Sub-Creation"
Jason Boffetti, "Catholic Scholar, Catholic Sub-Creator"
Michael Tomko, "'An Age Comes On': J.R.R. Tolkien and the English Catholic Sense of History"
Joseph Pearce, "The Lord of the Rings and the Catholic Understanding of Community"
Paul E. Kerry, "Tracking Catholic Influence in The Lord of the Rings"
Marjorie Burns, "Saintly and Distant Mothers"
Bradley J. Birzer, "The 'Last Battle' as a Johannine Ragnarok: Tolkien and the Universal"