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Storied Revelations - Parables, Imagination and George MacDonald's Christian Fiction (Paperback)
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Storied Revelations - Parables, Imagination and George MacDonald's Christian Fiction (Paperback)
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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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