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Tag: eucatastrophe

The Eucatastrophe of St. Ambrose

December 7, 2016December 7, 2018 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

The term eucatastrophe was coined by Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien to refer to a sudden turn of events that makes for a happy ending. It’s not the same as the deus ex machina of classical theatre, which quite often is really almost a non sequitur that ends a tale in some entirely implausible way. I thought of this word today when reading…

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