{"product_id":"in-the-house-of-tom-bombadil-group-reading-guide","title":"In the House of Tom Bombadil Group Study Guide","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWhat is Tom Bombadil doing in J.R.R. Tolkien’s \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e? His bright blue coat and yellow boots seem out of place with the grandeur of the rest of the narrative.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/WG-I152.pdf?v=1643743305\"\u003eLook Inside the Study Guide\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Some of the best insights ever made about J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented world or, frankly, about 20th-century literature…. Here is a book of intense wisdom and penetrating thought.” ~Bradley J. Birzer, author of \u003cem\u003eJ.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, C.R. Wiley shows that Tom is not an afterthought but Tolkien’s way of making a profoundly important point. Tolkien once wrote, “[Tom Bombadil] represents something that I feel important, though I would not be prepared to analyze the feeling precisely. I would not, however, have left him in, if he did not have some kind of function.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom Bombadil and his wife Goldberry are a small glimpse of the perfect beauty, harmony, and happy ending that we all yearn for in our hearts. To understand Tom Bombadil is to understand more of Tolkien and his deeply Christian vision of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Study Guide includes chapter summaries, 3-5 questions for discussion and practical application. Perfect for book groups.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"\\\"When a husband has been chronically unfaithful to his wife, to say that he remains a husband is not to approve of his infidelity. It is the basis of the disapproval. Perhaps his wife should divorce him, but, until she does, he is a husband. No one would look at the pattern of his adulteries, and then say, “Oh, well, at least he is married.” The fact that he is married compounds the sin, and in no way lessens it. In the same way, for an overt unbeliever to deny the deity of Jesus Christ is a great sin. But it is a worse sin for a baptized believer to do so, and for an ordained minister to reject the gospel in this way is far worse still. Such treachery should make us angrier; the fact that additional covenantal vows were broken ameliorates nothing.\\nBranches in Christ that bear much fruit are pruned and blessed. Do they have communion with those branches that bear no fruit, and which will be cut off and burned? They do not have a common future, but they do have a common present place on the same vine. To change the image slightly, together they partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree. And this means that true ecumenical dialogue with unfaithful Christians should consist of solemn warnings.\\nAt the same time, we should see that our disapproval of fellow covenant members is an objective disapproval. We no longer disapprove because their “lack of regeneration” has been weighed in the balances of our discernment and been found wanting.\\\" ~ from the book\"}'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"\\\"When a husband has been chronically unfaithful to his wife, to say that he remains a husband is not to approve of his infidelity. It is the basis of the disapproval. Perhaps his wife should divorce him, but, until she does, he is a husband. No one would look at the pattern of his adulteries, and then say, “Oh, well, at least he is married.” The fact that he is married compounds the sin, and in no way lessens it. In the same way, for an overt unbeliever to deny the deity of Jesus Christ is a great sin. But it is a worse sin for a baptized believer to do so, and for an ordained minister to reject the gospel in this way is far worse still. Such treachery should make us angrier; the fact that additional covenantal vows were broken ameliorates nothing.\\nBranches in Christ that bear much fruit are pruned and blessed. Do they have communion with those branches that bear no fruit, and which will be cut off and burned? They do not have a common future, but they do have a common present place on the same vine. To change the image slightly, together they partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree. And this means that true ecumenical dialogue with unfaithful Christians should consist of solemn warnings.\\nAt the same time, we should see that our disapproval of fellow covenant members is an objective disapproval. We no longer disapprove because their “lack of regeneration” has been weighed in the balances of our discernment and been found wanting.\\\" ~ from the book\"}'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eC.R. Wiley\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis a senior contributor to \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Imaginative Conservative\u003c\/em\u003e and a minister living in the Pacific Northwest. His short stories have appeared in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Mythic Circle \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFear and Trembling\u003c\/em\u003e, and his nonfiction has appeared in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTouchstone Magazine, Relevant Magazine Online, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eModern Reformation. \u003c\/em\u003eHe is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Household and the War for the Cosmos \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMan of the House\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Purloined Boy\u003c\/em\u003e, Book 1 of the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWeirdling Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e, is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/WG-I152.pdf?v=1643743305\"\u003eLook Inside the Study Guide\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/B-105.pdf?2719\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eAUTHOR: Canon Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePAGE COUNT: 22\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBINDING: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIZE: 5.5x8.5\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 10: 1954887485\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781954887480\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePUB. 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