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Fr. Dwight Longenecker: Tolkien’s Faith – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Dwight Longenecker: Tolkien’s Faith

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By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, CERC, June 2025

Father Dwight Longenecker serves as the pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary parish in Greenville, South Carolina. Father Longenecker studied for the Anglican ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and served for ten years in the Anglican ministry as a curate, a chaplain at Cambridge and a country parson. …

What will delight lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien most is the portrait of the man that is drawn in the pages of Holly Ordway’s biography. In the final chapters, she summarizes his life as the extraordinary fleshed out in ordinary. While Tolkien is completing his magnum opus, he is also maintaining the daily routine of husband, father, hardworking academic, and most of all—faithful Catholic layman. … Dwight Longenecker. “Tolkien’s Faith.” The Imaginative Conservative (January 2, 2025). Reprinted with permission.

Fraser FieldThe interminable Tolkien industry has churned out blockbuster feature films, television series, commentaries, critiques, essays and analysis. Numerous biographies have dissected his life, his friendship with C.S. Lewis, and his continuing legacy.

The influence of Tolkien’s Catholic faith on his great saga has been observed and analyzed, but no single volume has used Tolkien’s Catholic faith as the sole lens through which to view his life. Tolkien scholar Holly Ordway has now produced the complete study of Tolkien’s spirituality and shown the profound influence of Catholicism on every aspect of the great myth-maker’s life.

Ordway is the Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute and Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University. In her 2014 book, Not God’s Type, Ordway told the story of her personal involvement with Tolkien’s work and how it eventually led her from avowed atheism into the Catholic Church. An enthusiast for Oxford, England, and the Inklings, Ordway is well connected with the current generation of Tolkien scholars and has drawn on all the Tolkien literature to produce a heroic spiritual biography that is worthy of the heroic author. ….

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