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George MacDonald: Truth in Jesus
I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. Hence his Christ-like union of tenderness and severity. Nowhere else outside the…
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Recent Reading: George MacDonald
How do I characterize George MacDonald’s sermons? I’ve been thinking about this question off and on for several days. I’ve been reading his Unspoken Sermons for a couple of years now, a little…
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The Portent
…[We] began to find that we doubted a great deal of what seemed to have happened to us. It was as if the gates of the unseen world were closing against us, because…
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Diary of an Old Soul
I’ve been revisiting George MacDonald lately. I knew him first as the one whose Phantastes C.S. Lewis credited with “baptizing his imagination.” Then I explored some of his children’s books, and more recently…
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Phantastes
This is the book that C.S. Lewis read one day on a train and felt his imagination had been “baptized.” I read it back when I was in college and it didn’t capture…
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At the Back of the North Wind
Any story always tells me itself what I’m to think about it… I never can tell what they call clever from what they call silly, but I always know whether I like a…
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The Golden Key
These days I use the library as much as possible, but every once in awhile I come across a book I simply must have. George MacDonald’s The Golden Key is such a book.…
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The Princess and Curdie
Here she is: Princess Irene of The Princess and the Goblin . She’s following the thread spun by her mysterious grandmother, who lives in a tower, keeps pigeons, and reveals herself only to…
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The Light Princess
The Light Princess is a book of about 110 pages that I unearthed in the library’s juvenile section. There are a few etexts available (listed here), but this is the version I read. I’ve read a…
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In the beginning was the — image?
“Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen,” says the writer of Hebrews. “Seeing is not believing–it is only seeing,” agrees Princess Irene’s grandmother in The Princess…
