The Theology of George MacDonald : the child against the vampire of fundamentalism /

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was writing at a time of Evangelical unease. In a society ravaged by Asiatic cholera, numbed by levels of infant mortality, and fearful of revolution and the toxicity of industry (to name but a few of the many challenges), the "gospel" proclaiming eternal damna...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jong, John R. de
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, The, 2021.
Temas:
MacDonald, George, > 1824-1905 > Religion.
MacDonald, George, > 1824-1905 > Criticism and interpretation.
MacDonald, George, > 1824-1905
Fiction > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christianity in literature.
Christianisme dans la littérature.
RELIGION / Christian Theology / History
Fiction > Religious aspects > Christianity
Religion
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Book Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Context of George MacDonald's Work
  • Theology and Literature
  • The Reluctant Congregationalist
  • George MacDonald's Theology-Key Ideas and Influences
  • The Influence of Romanticism
  • The Victorian Backdrop-A Divided Evangelical World
  • 2 The Victorian Child-Social and Theological Attitudes
  • Sin and Innocence
  • Early- and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Attitudes to Childhood
  • Post-Darwin and Fin de Siècle Attitudes to Childhood
  • The Nineteenth-Century Child
  • 3 George MacDonald's Contribution to Childhood
  • Childhood Sins, Adult Sinners-A Tractarian Perspective
  • A Reading of At the Back of the North Wind
  • 4 The Child in MacDonald's Realist Fiction
  • Approaching MacDonald's Realist Fiction
  • The Innocent Child
  • The Abused and Disturbed Child
  • A Realist Fairyland
  • 5 An Overview of George MacDonald's Theology
  • Doctrine of God
  • Cosmology
  • Anthropology
  • The Problem of Evil
  • Soteriology
  • 6 The View of Evangelicalism from Fairyland
  • George MacDonald's Via Media
  • Evangelical Views of Evil
  • "A Little World of His Own"-The View from Fairyland
  • Learning to See Again-Fairy Vision
  • 7 The Child Against the Vampire-A Reading of Lilith
  • Lilith-Making Strange Theology
  • Lilith-Anti-Child and Antichrist
  • The Landscape and Action in Lilith
  • The Tactic of Defamiliarization
  • The Battle in (and for) the Mind
  • Satan-The Great Shadow
  • 8 Lilith-A Summary of George MacDonald's Theology
  • A Realist Fantasy
  • An Alternative Epistemology-Shape-Shifting Truth
  • The Child Against the Vampire
  • Key Theological Proposals that Emerge from Lilith
  • 9 The Implications of George MacDonald's Theology
  • "Death Has Come through Our Windows"
  • "A Problematic Attitude to the World"
  • "If We Are Not Little Ones of a Perfect Love, I Can See No Sense in Things"
  • "His Quarrel Is with All Churches at Home and Abroad"
  • "The Idea of the Universe"
  • Works Referenced
  • Back cover

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