Volume 144

Guests on Volume 144 • JONATHAN MCINTOSH on the influence of St. Thomas Aquinas’s metaphysical ideas on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien• KEVIN VOST on the history of thinking about friendship in Patristic and Medieval Christian thought• MALCOM GUITE on wisdom from Samuel Taylor Coleridge about reason and the imagination• R. DAVID COX on the influence of the Virginia Episcopalian tradition on the religious life of Robert E. Lee• GRANT BRODRECHT on why Civil War-era evangelicals in the North placed such a high value on preserving the Union• PETER BOUTENEFF on the theological richness of the music of Arvo Pärt This Volume is also available on CD Click here to download a pdf file with the contents listing and bibliographic information about this Volume. Jonathan McIntosh Jonathan McIntosh claims that the mythological stories of J. R. R. Tolkien are rooted in certain metaphysical assumptions. These ideas are most clearly evident in the Ainulindalë, the creation account which Tolkien include