{"id":25909,"date":"2024-03-09T16:46:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T16:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-168-tolkiens-hard-won-faith\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T16:46:03","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-168-tolkiens-hard-won-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-168-tolkiens-hard-won-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: 168 &#8211; Tolkien&#8217;s Hard-Won Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Nov 1, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Holly Ordway continues to break new ground in Tolkien<br \/>\nscholarship with her latest book, Tolkien&#8217;s Faith: A Spiritual<br \/>\nBiography. This work sheds important light on the experience of<br \/>\nCatholics like Tolkien and his mother in the hostile Anglican<br \/>\nestablishment of their time, on the crucial influence of the<br \/>\nOratory of St. Philip Neri on the young Tolkien, and more. Holly<br \/>\nreturns to the podcast to discuss these and other topics, such<br \/>\nas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should Tolkien be canonized?<\/li>\n<li>His practice of his faith in the first world war<\/li>\n<li>His struggles with his faith and in his marriage<\/li>\n<li>The secret initial in Tolkien&#8217;s name<\/li>\n<li>Was Tolkien a trad?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Tolkien&#8217;s Faith: A Spiritual Biography<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.wordonfire.org\/products\/tolkiens-faith\">https:\/\/bookstore.wordonfire.org\/products\/tolkiens-faith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP for Catholic Culture&#8217;s newsletter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DONATE to make this show possible!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/168-tolkiens-hard-won-faith-holly-ordway\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 1, 2023 Holly Ordway continues to break new ground in Tolkien scholarship with her latest book, Tolkien&#8217;s Faith: A Spiritual Biography. This work sheds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}