Ralph C. Wood is a scholar of theology and English literature, with a special interest in Christian writers, mainly of fiction, including J. R. R. Tolkien...
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Tolkien's legendarium, but do not appear in his narratives. The theologian Ralph C. Wood describes the Valar and Maiar as being what Christians "would call angels"...
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Gandalf, one of the Maiar, resembles Odin the wanderer. The theologian Ralph C. Wood describes the Valar and Maiar as being what Christians "would call angels"...
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for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet". The theologian Ralph C. Wood describes the Valar and Maiar as being what Christians "would call angels"...
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biographical coverage. Christian scholars too admired the book, though Ralph C. Wood thought that it underplayed the importance of Tolkien's Christianity...
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his brilliant style" and the Ainulindalë has "organ tones". Although Ralph C. Wood called it "one of the finest and most original of [Tolkien's] writings"...
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he was almost 600 years old. Commentators including the theologian Ralph C. Wood, and the critics Brent Nelson, Kathleen Gilligan, and Susan and Woody...
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they return to at last to the familiar things they have always known." Ralph C. Wood concludes from a Christian point of view that A Walking Song references...
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Ralph Currier Davis (December 24, 1894 – c. 1960) was an American industrial and consulting engineer, Professor of Business Organization at Ohio State...
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(even dispensed with a "good disposition"). With regard to sola gratia, Ralph C. Wood, a Protestant, contrasts the Protestant and Catholic doctrines with...
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