Essays
Storied revelations
2013·236 pages
Scholarly analysis of how George MacDonald revived the revelatory power of Jesus' parables through imaginative Christian fiction for his Victorian audience.
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Scholarly analysis of how George MacDonald revived the revelatory power of Jesus' parables through imaginative Christian fiction for his Victorian audience.
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Parables--used by Jesus to reveal to us the kingdom of God, used to move us from being bystanders to active recipients of God's work of revelation--are constantly at risk of being buried as "mummies of prose," as George MacDonald puts it. We become so familiar with the language of Scripture that Jesus' parables no longer work on us in this revelatory and transforming way. George MacDonald, the Victorian poet and theologian, observed this very process at work in Victorian society. It was a cultur...
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Central analysis of Christian parables, theology, and MacDonald's faith
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Brief references to fantasy elements in MacDonald's fiction
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Discussion of Victorian cultural and religious context
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