Kreeft Audio from Academy Week Away

TTF Staff

Peter Kreeft’s website is now making available MP3 audio from (some of) his talks at an Academy Week Away event in June 2005 where he talked about the worldview revealed in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

book cover imageThe lectures include question-and-answer time and feature material from Kreeft’s book, The Philosophy of Tolkien.

  • Fated and Free—integration of predestination and freewill; an insightful perspective via Lord of the Rings
  • Identity—The paradoxical nature of self
  • Language of Beauty—Prose that no writer will want to miss! The power of words revealed by Lord of the Rings

Sightings, Arts and Culture, Thu 16 Nov 2006

The best way of telling the difference between those two opposites—righteousness and self-righteousness—is that righteousness has a sense of humour. Self righteousness never does.

Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks, March 2007