The Battle of Worldviews: Dualism and Theism in Tolkien and Lewis
Everyone has a worldview. And every worldview has to deal with a key issue: the origins of good and evil. This is the perennial question of our existence and no one can escape it. Even fictional worldviews have to account for good and evil (if they are going to make any sense).
One possibility is to suggest that there is no such thing as good and evil. On a materialist-evolutionary worldview, where there is nothing but matter in motion, concepts like “good” and “evil” are merely human constructs. But such a worldview leads directly to Nihilism. We are forced to argue that the actions of people like Jerry Sandusky are … Continue reading...