Category: George MacDonald
Aëranths, Angels, and Allegory
C.S. Lewis, a literary-bent mind if ever there was, had the habit of discussing other writers (and...
Fight the Miserable Things: Reflections on Joy in At the Back of the North Wind
Ironically, viewing the year 2020 in hindsight may bring more despair and confusion than comfort...
From MacDonald to Magical Realism: Faith and Fantasy with the Romantics, Marquez, Murakami, and Van Halen
In a genuine fairy-story, everything must be miraculous, mysterious, and interrelated; everything...
On George MacDonald
G.K. Chesterton on one of his favorite authors, George MacDonald. This piece was written as an...
The Imagination: Its Function and its Culture
Cultivate the mere intellect as you may, it will never reduce the passions: the imagination,...
Good Enough to Believe In: George MacDonald and Knowledge of the Ineffable
George MacDonald’s first fairy tale novel, At the Back of the North Wind, tells the story of a...
Romanticism, the Marble Lady, and Orders of Longing in Phantastes
George MacDonald’s novel Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (1858), featuring the...
MacDonald, George
MacDonald, God planted us all on the border of Fairyland. Every time we open one of your books, we...
Lilith and The Queen’s Gambit: Two Ingenue Who Learn Love Through Sacrifice
Lilith, MacDonald’s final novel written forty years after Phantastes, continues its themes of...
The Richness of Plain Talk: Interview with David Jack on Translating the Beauty of George MacDonald
There was no question of getting through to the kernel and throwing away the shell: no question of...
Old MacDonald’s Dish: A Hearty Serving of George MacDonald’s Thoughts on the Imagination and its Relevance to Contemporary Apologetics
The writer of Psalm 42 is “in despair” and cries out to the Lord in the midst of his tribulation,...
Phantastes: Enchanting Beauty and Sacrificial Love
“My spirits rose as I went deeper into the forest … I found cheerfulness to be like life itself –...
The Lizard or the Stallion? George MacDonald on the Retroactivity of Heaven and Hell in The Great Divorce
Although C. S. Lewis is considered one of the world’s foremost apologists of the twentieth...
