{"id":12036,"date":"2020-07-10T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/?p=12036"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:06:03","slug":"spc-professor-publishes-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/spc-professor-publishes-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanities professor publishes first book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael\u00a0T.\u00a0Jahosky, Assistant Professor of Humanities at St. Petersburg College,\u00a0routinely incorporates\u00a0the writings\u00a0of J.R.R. Tolkien\u00a0into his Humanities curriculum. <em>The Good News of the Return of the King:The Gospel in Middle Earth<\/em> is his first book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jahosky says that although many people today reject Christianity for intellectual reasons, greater numbers of people are doing so because it does not engage their imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChristians must not only demonstrate that the Christian worldview&nbsp;is true, but that it is also good, beautiful, and relevant,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle Earth<\/em> endeavors to show the truth, goodness, and beauty of Jesus Christ, the Gospel, and the biblical meta-narrative by engaging the\u00a0imagination through J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>, as well as\u00a0<em>The Hobbit\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Silmarillion<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn this book, I propose that J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Lord of the Rings&nbsp;<\/em>is a story about what Jesus\u2019 parables are about: The Good News about the return of the&nbsp;king. As a work of imaginative fiction similar to Jesus\u2019 parables,&nbsp;<em>The Lord of the Rings&nbsp;<\/em>can bypass both intellectual and imaginative objections to the Gospel and pull back the \u201cveil of familiarity\u201d that obscures the Gospel for many,\u201d Jahosky said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael T. Jahosky, Assistant Professor of Humanities at St. Petersburg College, will be publishing his first book, Return of the King:The Gospel in Middle Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1856,"featured_media":12037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12038,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions\/12038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}