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Southwestern Oklahoma State University

1988

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The Hero's Education In Sacrificial Love: Thomas Covenant, Christ Figure, Matthew A. Fike Jul 1988

The Hero's Education In Sacrificial Love: Thomas Covenant, Christ Figure, Matthew A. Fike

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Traces Thomas Covenant’s development through six books, into a character capable of sacrificial love. Notes that despite frequent Christ-imagery associated with Covenant, the latter’s sacrifice is of a different type.