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

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🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This talk was given on March 14th, 2023 at Brown University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Paul Gondreau earned his doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, writing under the renowned Thomist scholar Rev. Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P. He is professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he teaches/has taught courses on marriage, Christology, the theology of Thomas Aquinas, the Church, the Eucharist, the Sacraments, and the Catholic thought of J.R.R. Tolkien. He has a published manuscript on Christ's human passions in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and has published numerous essays in the area of Thomistic Christology, Thomistic anthropology, a Thomistic account of human sexuality, and a Thomistic theology of disability. He is associate editor of the theological journal Nova et Vetera, and has served as a consultant to the USCCB's committee on marriage and family.

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1:11.6	My name is Paul Gondreau.
1:13.6	I am a professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island.
1:19.6	And among the courses that I teach, one is a colloquium on Tolkien.
1:34.8	And the focus is on the Catholic dimension of Tolkien's work,
1:38.3	especially the Lord of the Rings, because by his own admission,
1:43.4	this is in a letter to a Jesuit priest, he says, the Lord of the Rings is, of course, a fundamentally religious and Catholic work.
1:49.0	Okay. This is becoming more or less well known.
1:54.0	That is, that Tolkien himself was a devout Christian Catholic believer.
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