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Storied Revelations [electronic resource] : Parables, Imagination and George MacDonald's Christian Fiction.

By: Publication details: Havertown : The Lutterworth Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (235 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780718842147
  • 0718842146
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 230.092 22
LOC classification:
  • PR4969 .K74 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. George MacDonald: Poet and Theologian; 2. Patterns of Subversion and Promise: Jesus'' Parables; 3. Patterns of Subversion and Promise: Romanticism; 4. George MacDonald''s Theological Rationale for Story and the ""Parabolic""; 5. Patterns of Subversion and Promise: Lilith; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back cover.
Summary: George MacDonald, the Victorian poet and theologian, observed that his was a culture saturated with Christian jargon but often void of a profound understanding of the gospel for its own time and culture. The language of Scripture no longer penetrated people's hearts, thoughts, and attitudes; it no longer transformed people's lives. MacDonald, called to be a pastor, turned to story and more specifically the ""parabolic"" as a means of spiritual awakening. He created fictive worlds in which the language of Jesus would find a new home and regain its revelatory power for his particular Victorian a.
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Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. George MacDonald: Poet and Theologian; 2. Patterns of Subversion and Promise: Jesus'' Parables; 3. Patterns of Subversion and Promise: Romanticism; 4. George MacDonald''s Theological Rationale for Story and the ""Parabolic""; 5. Patterns of Subversion and Promise: Lilith; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back cover.

George MacDonald, the Victorian poet and theologian, observed that his was a culture saturated with Christian jargon but often void of a profound understanding of the gospel for its own time and culture. The language of Scripture no longer penetrated people's hearts, thoughts, and attitudes; it no longer transformed people's lives. MacDonald, called to be a pastor, turned to story and more specifically the ""parabolic"" as a means of spiritual awakening. He created fictive worlds in which the language of Jesus would find a new home and regain its revelatory power for his particular Victorian a.

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