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 326: Lyz Lenz - God Land
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 325: The Jewish View of Creation
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 324: Lora Jones Shares How She Found Faith In The Midst of Tragedy
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 323: Keith Getty and Sing! 2019
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 322: Eli Williams - Author of Father Love
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 321: Pentecost
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 320: A Conversation With Shane Claiborne
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 319: America's Unholy Ghosts: The Racist Roots of Our Faith and Politics with Author Joel Edward Goza
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 318: Dr. Julie Galambush - Hidden Truths: Why Translators Intentionally Mistranslate the Bible
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 317: Dr. Julie Galambush - Luke-Acts and the Creation of Christianity
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 316: In Conversation with Islam - Dr. Akber Mohammed
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 315: Guest Stephen Tobolowsky
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 314: Calvary Movie Reflection
Episode 313_The Jewish View of Original Sin with Rabbi Cary Kozberg
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 312: Matthew Clark
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 311: Legend Ozora
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode 310: Wild Harbors
Voices In My Head Podcast Episode #309: Hank Spaulding and The Just and Loving Gaze of God With Us
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