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Dr. Jonathan McIntosh is a Fellow of Humanities at New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. He is a member of the College’s graduate faculty, and teaches the College’s junior-year political and economic philosophy course, as well as electives in philosophical theology, natural law ethics, medieval thought, and Tolkien.

Dr. McIntosh joined the College faculty in 2007 after pursuing his M.A. (2004) and doctoral studies in philosophy at the University of Dallas (2009). He received his B.S. in Philosophy from University of Idaho in May 2001.

He is the author of The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie (Angelico Press, 2017) and several academic articles on the philosophical theology of St. Anselm of Canterbur ...more

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Interview on the Catholic Culture Podcast

For those interested, I was recently interviewed by Thomas Mirus on the Catholic Culture Podcast. We talked about my book The Flame Imperishable, but also spent some time reading through the Ainulindalë and highlighting different aspects of Tolkien’s text. You can check it out here:

https://www.catholicculture.org/podcast/index.cfm?ID=40&fbclid=IwAR3lcJeOOEtz0QGQUCFJ_EgtFSmO_DwF0uNcoLS_UWCKYS-8_

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The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie

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“John Houghton, in his article on Augustine and Tolkien, has made the point that there are in fact “two moments in the task of theology.” On the one hand, the theologian must “de-mythologize” and so render intelligible to his audience the meaning of divine revelation or sacred scripture by explaining it in terms of what they already know.2 It is this first task of theology with which St. Thomas was primarily involved, translating, as I suggested in the Introduction, the mythos of biblical revelation into the logos of Aristotle and the “vernacular” of late medieval scholasticism. “On the other hand,” Houghton continues, “the theologian faces the task of recovery, of restoring the power of images and stories that have grown weak from cultural change or from mere familiarity. In this sense the theologian’s task is not demythologizing but mythopoesis as...‘re-mythologizing’...”
― Jonathan S. McIntosh, The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie

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