"The other major flaw", writes Reid, is the failure to define the "moderns" other than chronologically in his view, the lack of definition of the subject makes the collection "lacking in coherence and structure". Reid then states that Wood overlooks the "substantial body of scholarship" from the 1980s onwards that investigates Tolkien's engagement with modernism, mentioning the work of scholars such as Dimitra Fimi, Verlyn Flieger, and especially Weinreich and Honegger's Tolkien and Modernity.
Reid, reviewing Tolkien among the Moderns for Journal of Tolkien Research, notes that Wood's "brief editorial frame" for the essay collection claims that Tolkien is neither escapist nor antiquarian that his Middle-earth writings are centred on "a profound moral and religious vision" and that Tolkien had a "largely unnoticed" engagement with "major literary figures and philosophical movements of our time". Tolkien Encyclopedia that Wood makes the case that "the Christian Gospel is embedded into the very foundations of Tolkien's mythology". Reception Gospel According to Tolkien ĭan Muth, reviewing The Gospel According to Tolkien for The Living Church, wrote that it deserved a receptive audience, and was likely to get one it made engaging use of Tolkien's work and "would serve as an excellent introduction to the virtues". 2011 Lionel Basney Award for Outstanding Essay published in Christianity and Literature.2010 Associated Church Press Award of Excellence for Best Critical Review.
In 1998 he became University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University, where he teaches, researches, and writes books. He served as a lecturer in English at North Park College in Chicago before moving to Wake Forest University in the first of several academic employments in religion he has taught at Samford University, Regent College, Vancouver, and Providence College, Rhode Island. Ralph Wood gained his bachelor's and master's degrees from East Texas State College, graduating in 1965, and took his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1975. Chesterton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, George Herbert, and Dorothy Sayers. Wood is a scholar of theology and English literature, with a special interest in Christian writers, mainly of fiction, including J.
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