JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Vol. XXXVIII 2026
C. S. LEWIS & J. R. R. TOLKIEN:
THE PROMISE OF CHRISTIAN FAIRYTALES

EDITORIAL
Oskar Gruenwald:  Transcendence in Christian Fairytales   1
ARTICLES
Dawn Lewis Sutherland:  Fairytales Against the Machine:
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Bodily Salvation   15
Charles E. DeBord:  The Sacred Signs of Fantasy:
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Significance of Fairy-Tales   35
Cambry G. Pardee:  The Promise of Transformation in the
Fairy Stories of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis   55
Juliana Maria Odono:  Excursions Into Enchantment:
Eucatastrophe in Nick Joaquin’s Pop Stories   75
Andy T. Chang:  Chaos Contained: Imagination, Suffering, and
Moral Meaning in C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien   95
Eric W. Parker & Benjamen D. Kilgore:  Baptized Imagination:
Myth and the Recovery of Objective Value in C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien  109
Jeremy E. Scarbrough:  Fairy-Story and the Moral Imagination:
Disney’s Pre-Christian Storytelling   127
FORUM FOR DIALOGUE
Daniel W. Hollis III:  The Promise of Transformation
in Fairy-Stories: A Response   157
William R. Clough:  There and Back Again:
The Promise of Christian Fairy-Tales   174
BOOK REVIEWS   193
BOOKS RECEIVED   219
CALL FOR PAPERS:  JIS Symposium 2027: The God Question: A Great New Religious Awakening?   221
CALL FOR PAPERS:  JIS XXXIX 2027: The Future of Democracy: Renewing Ordered Liberty   222
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“And the Word Was With God . . .”
John 1:1

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