The Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth - Images of Christ's Threefold Office in the Lord of the Rings

Can The Lord of the Rings help us understand the Christian faith more deeply? From the inaugural Hansen Lecture, Wheaton College president Philip Ryken mines the riches of Tolkien's theological imagination. In the characters of Gandalf, Frodo, and Aragorn, Ryken hears echoes of the one who is the true prophet, priest, and king, considering what that threefold office means for the calling of all Christians.

About the author

Philip Graham Ryken (Ph.D., Oxford) is President of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is Bible teacher for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, and can be heard weekly on the radio broadcast Every Last Word. He has written or edited more than thirty books including The Message of Salvation, The Doctrines of Grace (with James Montgomery Boice) and Ryken's Bible Handbook.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Ryken
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780830853724
• ISBN: 978-0-8308-5372-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 205 g
• Series: Hansen Lectureship; Hansen Lectureship; Hansen Lectureship Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity