The theology of George MacDonald the child against the vampire of fundamentalism
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 -- The Victorian Child: Social and Theological...
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Eugene, Oregon
Pickwick Publications
2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 -- 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 -- George MacDonald's Contribution to Childhood. Childhood Sins, Adult Sinners: A Tractarian Perspective -- A Reading of At the Back of the North Wind -- The Child in MacDonald's Realist Fiction. Approaching MacDonald's Realist Fiction -- The Innocent Child -- The Abused and Disturbed Child -- A Realist Fairyland -- An Overview of George MacDonald's Theology. MacDonald's Approach to Cognition and Epistemology -- Doctrine of God -- Cosmology -- Anthropology -- The Problem of Evil -- Soteriology -- 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 -- The Child Against the Vampire: A Reading of Lilith. Lilith: Making Strange Theology -- Lilith: Anti-Child and Antichrist -- The Landscape and Action to Lilith -- The Tactic of Defamiliarization -- The Battle in (and for) the Mind -- Satan: The Great Shadow -- 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 -- 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". "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 damnation for unbelievers was hardly good news; rather, Christianity was increasingly viewed as the source of bad news and a tool of state oppression. MacDonald agreed: in his view, the church had become a vampire sucking the blood of her children instead of offering them eucharistic life. In contrast, like Christ, MacDonald brings before us a child. Although at first sight a familiar Romantic incarnation, in MacDonald's theology "the child" becomes an unlikely icon challenging the vampire's kingdom--a challenge reaching beyond the confines of Evangelicalism, confronting the foundations of much of Western theology. This meticulously-researched study exploring MacDonald's work--especially his "realist" and fantasy novels--in the light of its Victorian context is of more than historical interest. His incisive critique of church and empire have particular relevance today in light of the growing and troubling alliance between fundamentalist expressions of church and intolerant, right-wing politics. This volume considers MacDonald's radical solution to religious vampirism; becoming children" -- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 279 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781532678745 978-1-5326-7874-5 9781532678752 978-1-5326-7875-2 |