Colin Duriez
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El impacto de Francis Schaeffer sigue teniendo una amplia resonancia dentro de la Iglesia y de la cultura contemporánea. Su vida, apasionada y genuina, es el centro de la biografía autorizada de Colin Duriez, inspirada en más de 150.000 palabras de historia oral, además de entrevistas personales y otros recursos que no solo retratan al hombre y sus relaciones, sino también su formación espiritual, el desarrollo de sus ideas y su cosmovisión.
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Tras el éxito en el cine de la trilogía El Señor de los Anillos, el mundo recreado por Tolkien ha capturado la atención de millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Pero ¿quién fue realmente ese hombre, capaz de idear semejante universo? Sus primeros años fueron difíciles: huérfano y pobre, se le prohibió comunicarse con la mujer que amaba, y vivió de cerca los horrores de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Dedicó largos años a desarrollar los personajes...
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Long before the successful The Lord of the Rings films, J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, imagination, and characters had captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth? Tolkien had a difficult life, for many years: orphaned and poor, his guardian forbad him to communicate with the woman he had fallen in love with, and he went through the horrors of the...
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An Oxford student of C.S. Lewis's said he found his new tutor interesting, and was told by J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that. You'll never get to the bottom of him.' You can learn a great deal about people by their friends and nowhere is this more true than in the case of C.S. Lewis, the remarkable academic, author, popularizer of faith - and creator of Narnia. He lost his mother early in life, and became estranged from his father,...
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The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis's college rooms, they included an influential array of literary figures. They were, claimed poet and novelist John Wain, bent on 'the task of redirecting the whole current of contemporary art and life'. Tolkien and Lewis expert Colin Duriez...
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Dorothy L Sayers was a woman of contrasts. A strong Christian, she had a baby by a man she did not love - out of wedlock. Possessing a fierce intellect, she translated Dante - and also created one of the most popular fictional detectives ever, in Lord Peter Wimsey. With no new biographies on Sayers having been published for some time, Colin Duriez reassesses her, her life, her writings, her studies and her faith. Drawing on previously unpublished...
