Showing posts with label J.R.R. Tolkien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J.R.R. Tolkien. Show all posts

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Christianity and Anti-Christianity in Fantasy and Science Fiction

A new book of mine has just been released with the same title as this post. It was published in Spanish by CEU Ediciones, and in English by Amazon.

There is a fairly widespread idea that we shouldn’t speak about Christian literature as a literary genre, except perhaps in fantasy, where the Christian character of such famous literary works as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings or C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia cannot be denied. In science fiction, the matter is not so clear. However, no one doubts that atheist literature does exist.

My book starts from the premise that an evident Christian literature exists in both genres, and demonstrates this by analyzing a series of authors and literary works, without neglecting anti-Christian literature, to which almost a third of the work is dedicated.

My predilection for fantasy and science fiction has been clear in this blog, given that over almost 12 years I've dedicated 34 posts to those two genres in literature and film; in other words, more than 6% of the posts.

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Why we have no great men today

G.K. Chesterton
First, a clarification: I won’t let myself be dragged by political correctness. I’m not going to change the title of this post to “great human beings.” For me, the word “man” (equivalent to the Latin homo) still has a main generic meaning, different from the meaning whose Latin antecedent is vir (male), opposed to woman or female.
The absence of great men is a common place today and affects almost all fields: