As a recently retired English professor, I’ve experienced Northwind’s program in Romantic Theology as
an excellent path for combining my literary background with my long-term interest in theology. Drs.
Duncan and Christensen have been wonderfully helpful in facilitating my pursuit of post-doctoral
research culminating in a book project on Romantic Theology. In addition to the engaging and
deepening courses and discussion groups, I eagerly anticipate the program’s Advances—the Oxford
Pilgrimage in June and the Undiscovered C. S. Lewis Conference at George Fox University in September,
where I’ll get to present some of my Northwind research. Finally—this just in—my latest book, The
Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology, which draws upon Lewis’s and Tolkien’s
theory of myth, has been chosen as a finalist for a Mythopoeic Scholarship Award by the Mythopoeic
Society, publisher of Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic
Literature. With the Northwind at my back, I can happily say that I’m sailing toward a new horizon for
my life and ministry!

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Paul Rovang