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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet
You're thinking of theological universalism, which is the assertion that "everybody makes it heaven in the end". The opposite of this is "limited grace".
I meant philosophical universalism, which is the assertion that that there is a "correspondence of our intellectual concepts to things existing outside our intellect."
Actually, I mis-stated in my last post. It is my opinion that Tolkien was a Realist in terms of the "problem of universals"; Occam was a Nominalist. There. That's better. For more on this, check
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Thanks for the information - my brain is already starting to hurt
. And as I can't remember ever having philosophy, and as this thread has been tending to discuss religion, when I saw 'universalism,' one thought came to mind.
And emblems or no, it's always been clear to me in LOTR who were the 'good' and exactly what 'goodness' stood for/meant. The trilogy is filled with moral content that is not overtly specific to one religion. I never associated - even loosely - any of the content with angels or the Virgin Mary.