Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology in Middle-Earth

Austin M. Freeman (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is a lecturer at Houston Baptist University and a classical school teacher.

Austin Freeman has given a gift to Tolkien scholars and aficionados alike in a work I didn’t think could be written. [...] Tolkien Dogmatics overflows with insights and is a must-read for serious students of Tolkien.

—The Gospel Coalition

The reader of [Tolkien] Dogmatics does truly gain a new grasp on the contours of Tolkien’s Catholic faith, and especially how thoughtful and reflective he was as a devout member of the Catholic church, and how this formation shaped his output as a writer.

—Joel Wentz, Englewood Review of Books

This is a well-researched, one-of-a-kind work that will appeal especially to those who have gone out the front door to engage in the dangerous business of walking the Way of Christ, pursuing their own adventures as inhabitants of the twenty-first-century, demystified Middle-West.

—Kevin J. Vanhoozer, research professor of systematic theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Tolkien Dogmatics is likely to become a standard text for interested laypeople and literary critics as well as professional theologians when discussing the theology of the maker of Middleⷐearth.

—Thomas Honegger, FriedrichⷐSchillerⷐUniversity, Jena, Germany