The Wonders of Creation: Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth (Hansen Lectureship Series)
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Overview
When an author of fiction employs the imagination and sets characters in a new location, they are in a sense creating a world. Might such fictional worlds give us a deeper appreciation for our own?
Many readers have found themselves, like the Pevensie children, transported by C. S. Lewis into Narnia, and they have traveled from Lantern Waste to Cair Paravel and the edge of the sea. Thanks to J. R. R. Tolkien, readers have also journeyed with Bilbo, Frodo, and their companions across Middle-earth from the Shire to the Lonely Mountain, the forest of Mirkwood, the mines of Moria, and the very fires of Mount Doom. But as often as we enter these fictional worlds as readers, we eventually return to our world refreshed with sharpened insight.
In The Wonders of Creation, biologist Kristen Page explores the beloved fictional landscapes of Narnia and Middle-earth in order to discover what we might learn about real-life landscapes and how to become better stewards of God's good creation.
The Hansen Lectureship Series offers accessible and insightful reflections by Wheaton College faculty members on the transformative work of the Wade Center authors.
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- Explores the beloved fictional landscapes of Narnia and Middle-earth
- Discusses what we might learn about real-life landscapes and how to become better stewards of God's good creation
- Offers accessible and insightful reflections by Wheaton College faculty members
- Introduction by G. Walter Hansen
- Searching Fictional Landscapes to Guide Our View of Our Own World
- Response: Christina Bieber Lake
- A Lament for Creation
- Response: Noah Toly
- Ask the Animals to Teach You: How to Regain Wonder and Rejoin the Chorus
- Response: Emily Hunter McGowin
- Title: The Wonders of Creation: Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth
- Author: Kristen Page
- Series: The Hansen Lectureship Series
- Publisher: IVP Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 136
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Chronicles of Narnia; Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Lord of the rings; Narnia (Imaginary place); Middle Earth (Imaginary place); Imaginary places in literature; Environmental protection in literature; Environmental protection › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781514004364, 9781514004357, 1514004364, 1514004356
- Resource ID: LLS:WNDRSCRTNLCTSRS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-11-01T21:50:16Z