[PDF.91eu] Storied Revelations: Parables, Imagination, and George MacDonalds Christian Fiction (Distinguished Dissertations in Christian Theology)

Storied Revelations: Parables, Imagination, and George MacDonalds Christian Fiction (Distinguished Dissertations in Christian Theology)

[PDF.bj93] Storied Revelations: Parables, Imagination, and George MacDonalds Christian Fiction (Distinguished Dissertations in Christian Theology)

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 | #3788180 in Books |  2013-08-28 |  2013-08-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.57 x6.00l,1.55 | File type: PDF | 250 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| a wealth of useful information|By Inklings Fan|This book succeeds on many different levels. First, Kreglinger examines MacDonald’s “structures and methods” in his use of the parable and why this is such an effective literary form to engage the imagination of a reader. The parable is distinguished from an allegory or a metaphor and significant space is allotted| |''George Macdonald was one of the great storytellers of the Christian tradition. Convinced that living faith could no longer be sustained by tired old doctrinaire formulations of truth, he envisioned the Word made fresh through revitalizing imagination, poetry

Parables--used by Jesus to reveal to us the kingdom of God, used to move us from being bystanders to active recipients of God's work of revelation--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 ...

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