On George MacDonald
G.K. Chesterton on one of his favorite authors, George MacDonald. This piece was written as an introduction to George MacDonald and His Wife, by Greville M. MacDonald (MacDonald’s son), 1924. […]
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Category: Issue Twelve
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, “All Thy breakers and waves have rolled over me,” he […]
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Phantastes: Enchanting Beauty and Sacrificial Love
“My spirits rose as I went deeper into the forest … I found cheerfulness to be like life itself – not to be created by any argument”[1] – George MacDonald, […]
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The Imagination: Its Function and its Culture
Cultivate the mere intellect as you may, it will never reduce the passions: the imagination, seeking the ideal in everything, will elevate them to their true and noble service. George […]
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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 must be alive, each in its way. The whole of Nature must be wondrously blended with the whole […]
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A Heavenly Guide: Lewis’s ‘Teacher’ in The Great Divorce
From the Grey Town below of eternal self-vision, A despairing, hollow place, To the Bright Lands above of expedition, At a slow, infernal pace. Every step taken leads further up, […]
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Aëranths, Angels, and Allegory
C.S. Lewis, a literary-bent mind if ever there was, had the habit of discussing other writers (and their influences on him) within his own stories. In Out of the Silent […]
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MacDonald, George
MacDonald, God planted us all on the border of Fairyland. Every time we open one of your books, we cross the threshold and follow the rainbow. Oh! To get to […]
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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 young English boy named Diamond who lives an almost cherubic life, mediating […]
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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 century, we would do well to remember that without George MacDonald, we might not have […]
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