Eucatastrophe: “And they all lived happily ever after…”
I love J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth. I particularly enjoy a term he coined – eucatastrophe (Gk. “eu” being the prefix meaning “good”). Lisa Coultras, in her book Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty writes about this term, “This event is the reversal of a seemingly inevitable catastrophe; it is, rather, the ‘good’ catastrophe. On the brink of […]
Eucatastrophe: “And they all lived happily ever after…” Read More »