The Making of the Christian Imagination
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The Making of the Christian Imagination

Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity

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The Making of the Christian Imagination

Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity

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The Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll, among others. Nineteenth century photographs of MacDonald present a forbidding visage, embodying Victorian-era solemnity. Yet behind the facade, as Daniel Gabelman writes, lived a whimsical and fantastical muse. Indeed, MacDonald imbued theological weight through childlike lightheartedness. Gabelman ably reveals in MacDonald's writings a bridge between playfulness and seriousness in the modern imagination. George MacDonald delivers a balanced reading of its subject that ultimately lends a new theological and literary weight to whimsy.

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Publisher
Baylor University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781602587847
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Literature & the Arts in Christianity

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Series Introduction
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Modalities of Levity
  6. 1. The Levity of Saints and Angels
  7. 2. Ecstasy and Folly: Lightening the Self for Its Journey
  8. 3. Vanity and Play: Liberation from Seriousness for Metamorphosis
  9. 4. Carnival and Sabbath: A Time for Renewal, Rebellion, and Revelation
  10. Part II: MacDonald’s Fairytale Levity
  11. 5. “Never so Real as When They Are Solemn”: Victorians and Seriousness
  12. 6. Time: Fairyland’s Festive Sabbath
  13. 7. Space: Fairyland’s Ecstatic Cosmology
  14. 8. Transformation: “Shall not the Possible Become the Real?”
  15. Conclusion: The Haunting Force of Levity
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index