Category: George MacDonald
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George MacDonald Universalism against Hans Urs von Balthasar on Universal Salvation
Many a wrong, and its curing song; Many a road, and many an inn; Room to roam, but only one home For all the world to win. (Eve, in MacDonald’s Lilith) I want to put two eschatologies in conversation, that of Hans Urs von Balthasar on Universal Salvation and that of George MacDonald Universalism. The…
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Palliative Care for Imprisonism Literature
In the last few decades it grew popular for critics to predict and mourn the death of the novel. The death of the novel is really the death of their particular kind of novel: imprisonism literature. It’s as if someone said at their father’s funeral: “Fatherhood is dead to me” or before their own suicide…
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Follow Your Bliss : Results of Joseph Cambell’s Advice
Featured tool: I use this tool to discover new authors through whom I follow my bliss. Let me share it with you. Seldom do I mention this here, but I minored in ancient literature and mythology in college. In my last semester, the academic dean helped me build a one-on-one class with him that featured…
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Dead Guest Post :: The Fantastic Imagination
Today’s dead guest post is “The Fantastic Imagination.” In this piece, George MacDonald shows how the point of fantasy and science fiction is to change the physical laws of our world so that the spiritual — or moral or ethical — laws behind all worlds come to a sharper point. It’s one of my favorite pieces on…
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Dead Guest Post — The Imagination: its Function and its Culture
Today’s dead guest post comes from George MacDonald. It was first published 1867 in a Dish of Orts :: THERE are [those] in whose notion education would seem to consist in the production of a certain repose through the development of this and that faculty, and the depression, if not eradication, of this and that…
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Why Preachers Write Awful Books …and what they can learn from fiction
Most of you regulars who will read this first either hate religion, remain skeptical of the church, or you’re a Christian that feels bored/frustrated/faithful-yet-concerned with out-of-touch Midwest Megasomething. Books by pastors, we can safely assume, bore the living Barjesus out of you. Me too. (You who found this post via the recommendation of some first…
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Shadowfell by Juliet Mariller
I must be on a Fae kick or something because I started Midsummer Night’s Dream in the same week as Shadowfell, which comes out September 11th, 2012 for any interested parties. Maybe it had something to do with the current political situation and the over saturation of dystopian fiction, but I really liked this book. Sixteen-year-old Neryn…
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What I’m Reading Now…
The time to write reviews for all of these turned up missing somewhere in the jumble of wrapping paper, noisemakers, and new years resolutions. I tend to keep roughly five books going at any given time from my need to start something new every five seconds (I’m a better sower than tender), AND from valuing…