Book Review: The Wonders of Creation

 

The Wonders of Creation

Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth

by Kristen Page

Pub Date 29 Nov 2022 

 InterVarsity Press,  IVP Academic

I am reviewing a copy of The Wonders of Creation through Intervarsity Press and Netgalley:

When authors such as C.S Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams employ their imaginations and sets characters in a new location, they are in a sense creating a world. Could such fictional worlds give us a deeper appreciation for our own?

Many Readers have found themselves transported by C.S Lewis to Narnia like the Pevensie children.  They have traveled  from Lantern Waste to Cair Paravel and the edge of the sea. Thanks to J. R. R. Tolkien, readers have also journeyed with Bilbo, Frodo, and their companions across Middle-earth from the Shire to the Lonely Mountain, the forest of Mirkwood, the mines of Moria, and the very fires of Mount Doom. But as often as we enter these fictional worlds as readers, we eventually return to our world refreshed with sharpened insight. In The Wonders of Creation, biologist Kristen Page explores the beloved fictional landscapes of Narnia and Middle-earth in order to discover what we might learn about real-life landscapes and how to become better stewards of God's good creation.

The Wonders of Creation is based on the annual lecture series hosted at Wheaton College's Marion E. Wade Center, volumes in the Hansen Lectureship Series reflect on the imaginative work and lasting influence of seven British authors: Owen Barfield, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams.

I give The Wonders of Creation five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!