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Storied Revelations : Parables, Imagination and George MacDonald's Christian Fiction.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Havertown :
The Lutterworth Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Distinguished dissertations in Christian theology ;
9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (235 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780718842147 0718842146 0718893298 9780718893293 |