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Christian History & Biography, Spring 2005
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"Life and Religion Are One"
George MacDonald embraced all experiences, both joys and hardships, as vehicles of grace—and inspired others to do the same.
Rolland Hein
Also: • The pilgrims' progress
The Power of Books
For the Victorians, reading could be the doorway to doubt— or to faith.
Timothy Larsen
Sacred Story
With the pen as his pulpit, MacDonald used fiction to show the relevance of scriptural truth to the problems of his age.
Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson
Also: • Unraveling Phantastes
Gallery: Victorian Visionaries
MacDonald's friends worked to reform society, challenge the church, and inspire the imagination.
Stephen Prickett, Edwin Woodruff Tait, J. Phillip Newell, and Rachel Johnson
"A Born Preacher"
MacDonald's sermons passed the Victorian tests of earnestness and practicality with flying colors.
Robert H. Ellison
Also: • Sermon Excerpt, "To the Church of the Laodiceans"
Love at the Heart of the Universe
For MacDonald, belief in God and obedience to God went hand in hand.
Kerry Dearborn
The Wise Imagination
MacDonald's legacy is his reminder that we are creative beings because we are made in the image of a Creator.
Trevor Hart
A Faith That Feels
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth translated Romantic ideals into the language of Christian experience.
Stephen Prickett with Jennifer Trafton
Departments:
Living History
First church of Norway, Da Vinci's fingerprint, and the Cradle of Scottish Christianity
Eye Witness
"A pilgrim's tale: Journey to Jerusalem"
Story Behind
Elementary school: medieval to modern
People Worth Knowing
Unchained faith: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and John Bunyan
Turning Point
The humiliation of King Henry
Changed Lives
Martin E. Marty on Luther: The daily gift of new life
Recommended Resources
Did You Know?
Timeline
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