Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 341 g
Reihe: The Lutterworth Press
Parables, Imagination and George MacDonald's Christian Fiction
Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 341 g
Reihe: The Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9329-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A study of how the Victorian poet and theologian George MacDonald reimagined the spiritually transforming language of the parable for a 19th-century audience.
Parables were used by Jesus to reveal to us the kingdom of God and to move us from being bystanders to active recipients of God's work of revelation. However, parables 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 culture saturated with Christian jargon but often devoid of a profound understanding of the gospel for its own time and culture. The language of Scripture no longer penetrated people's hearts, imaginations, and attitudes; it no longer transformed people's lives. MacDonald, called to be a pastor, turned a 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 audience.
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Foreword
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 Theological Rationale for Story and the "Parabolic"
5 Patterns of Subversion and Promise: Lilith
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
