TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kreglinger,Gisela H.
TI  - Storied Revelations: Parables, Imagination and George MacDonald's Christian Fiction
SN  - 9780718842147
AV  - PR4969 .K74 2013
U1  - 230.092 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Havertown
PB  - The Lutterworth Press
KW  - MacDonald, George,
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Jesus Christ.
KW  - Imagination
KW  - Parables
KW  - Christian fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Bible and literature
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Systematic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Parables, Biblical
KW  - RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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