Although many people today reject Christianity for intellectual reasons, greater numbers of people are rejecting Christianity because it does not engage their imagination. Christians must not only demonstrate that the Christian worldview is true, but that it is also good, beautiful, and relevant. The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle-earth is a book that endeavors to show the truth, goodness, and beauty of Jesus Christ, the gospel, and the biblical metanarrative by engaging the imagination through J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as well as The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. In this book, Michael T. Jahosky proposes that J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is a story about what Jesus' parables are about: the good news about the return of the king. As a work of imaginative fiction similar to Jesus' parables, The Lord of the Rings can bypass both intellectual and imaginative objections to the gospel and pull back the "veil of familiarity" that obscures the gospel for many.
Michael T. Jahosky is the author of The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle-Earth and he has stopped by the podcast for a visit on this episode.
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Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 329: Nikki Lerner and Multicultural Worship Ministry
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 328: A Third Way To Talk About Abortion - ProGrace CEO Angie Weszely
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 327: William Willimon - Accidental Preacher
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 326: Lyz Lenz - God Land
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 325: The Jewish View of Creation
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Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 323: Keith Getty and Sing! 2019
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Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 321: Pentecost
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Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 317: Dr. Julie Galambush - Luke-Acts and the Creation of Christianity
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