
"The Messiah Comes to Middle-earth" w/ President Philip Ryken
Wade Center
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The Three Offices of Christ in Christian Theology
Christal: I was interested in the prophetic priestly and Kingly ministry of Jesus Christ, there's a vast legacy of that just in Christian theology. UCBS was the first person to use this as a theological framework. And one of the things I really valued that you did in this book was to honor Tolkien's recognition of the poetics of language. You would do things like you would be talking about Aragorn and you would say Aragorn's son of Arathorn. And you would honor the poetry of the sound of Tolkien's language.
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