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Only Love Can Judge: The Sacred Role of True Critics

A true critic is a lover

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Apr 15, 2025
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The following article was written by Eugene Terekhin, the man and the mind behind the publication Philosophy of Language.

Philologist, philosopher, translator, and author Eugene Terekhin explores in Philosophy of Language the secret literary theory behind the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield who believed that when words are spoken aright, they invoke the invisible reality from behind the veil of the world. He is a voice of much needed wisdom in our day and age, when so much of true art is being eviscerated and trivialized.

He is the author of the following books and I have read three of his books and highly recommend them:

Eleven Hidden Gems in the Works of the Inklings: The Music of Iluvatar in the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield

Forty-Four Mystical Insights Into the Books of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield: Philosophy Behind the High Fantasy of the Inklings

and The New Exodus: Escaping One Man’s War

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