The Catholic Vision Of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings | Professor Paul Gondreau

The Catholic Vision Of J.R.R. Tolkien's The L...

Up next

Truth, Goodness, and Fantasy Literature – Fr. Philip-Neri Reese, O.P.

Fr. Philip-Neri Reese argues that while grimdark fantasy (exemplified by George R. R. Martin) can be just as true artistically as Tolkien-style classic fantasy, it is necessarily less good in the fullest Thomistic sense because it structurally valorizes nihilism and hopelessness ...  Show more

The Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis – Prof. Lee Oser

Prof. Lee Oser portrays the Inklings—and especially J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis—as a countercultural circle of Christian writers and scholars whose friendship, medieval learning, and shared experience of war grounded a robust Christian imagination that resisted modern secularis ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

Catholic and Protestant DEBATE The Eucharist w/ Dr. Brett Salkeld & Dr. Steven Nemes
Pints With Aquinas

A Catholic and Protestant debate the eucharist. Get Dr. Salkeld's new book here: https://bakerbookhouse.com/products/41652 Dr. Steven Nemes received his PhD in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, where he studied under Profs. Oliver Crisp and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. He has ...  Show more

#29 Josh Bauder: How to Recover a Reformed Theology of Beauty, Music in the Church as Symptomatic of Christian Culture, Church Architecture as a Conduit to Worship
The Modern Puritan

Dr. Josh Bauder is a Minneapolis-based composer, arranger, typesetter, and professor. His choral music has been performed by church, university, and community choirs across the United States and abroad. Josh holds a B.A. in music and philosophy from the University of St. Thomas, ...  Show more

The Catholic Church and how it got to where it is today
The Wise and the Wherefores

In Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World, Dr. Ambrogio A. Caiani tells the story of the Catholic Church in the modern age. Beginning with the aftermath of the French Revolution and the democratic rebellions of 1848, Caiani follows the Church's evolution that sees th ...

  Show more

Orthodox Ecclesiology (Lesson 7): The Kollyvades Fathers and St. Hilarion (Troitsky)
Orthodox Ethos

Join Fr. Peter Heers for a 10-part course in developing our understanding of the nature of the one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church as the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ and the pillar and ground of the Truth (I Tim. 3:15). This lecture series ...

  Show more