Abiding the Long Defeat
How to Evangelize Like a Hobbit in a Disenchanted Age
Published on 8. May 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-62138-357-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book makes a fresh contribution to a growing genre of popular literature facing Christianity's late-modern or postmodern decline. It situates the broader fate of Christian faith within the eschatological realism of J.R.R. Tolkien's characterization of history as a "long defeat."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ranchos de Taos
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62138-357-4 (9781621383574)
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CONOR SWEENEY is the author of Sacramental Presence after Heidegger: Onto-theology, Sacraments, and the Mother's Smile (2015), and the co-editor of God and Eros: The Ethos of the Nuptial Mystery (2015).