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Making Friends with George MacDonald: A new podcast devoted to the Scotsman featuring Daniel Speake, Dale Darling, James House, and their guests!
One of the ways I seek spiritual sustenance is through listening to edifying works on long drives. I discovered a set of audio CDs on eBay with the promising title The Hope of the Gospel, by someone I had never heard of named George MacDonald…
The poet George MacDonald would have intuitively understood Hegel’s “othering.” Even though these two men never knew each other, there is a strange likeness between Hegel and MacDonald, a shared tendency to start small and increase. Hegel never stopped expanding. By the time of his death, Hegel’s philosophy included everything; he was the last of the great systematisers – he even claimed that his philosophy was the culmination of logic, nature and spirit! Though MacDonald’s creativity is not as unbounded (or egoistic) as that of Hegel, MacDonald has a similar expansive creativity…
A few years ago it occurred to me, after re-reading the story for the hundredth time, which this very long fairy tale could readily be divided into chapters. I thought that perhaps a publisher might be more willing to produce it as a chapter book for ages eight and up, along with a significant number of black and white illustrations.
One of the ways I seek spiritual sustenance is through listening to edifying works on long drives. I discovered a set of audio CDs on eBay with the promising title The Hope of the Gospel, by someone I had never heard of named George MacDonald…
MacDonald Community
Celebrate George’s 200th Birthday!
Fiction
Fairy Tales was first published in 1904 by the author's son, Greville MacDonald, and includes eight of his father's greatest fantasy stories. This new edition published by The Works of George MacDonald features famed 19th-century illustrator Arthur Hughes' 13 original illustrations and the introduction by George MacDonald's son, Greville MacDonald. In addition, we’ve added a new preface by MacDonald's great-great-grandson, Christopher, and a new foreword by C.S. Lewis' stepson, Douglas Gresham.
Historically, At the Back of the North Wind ranks as George MacDonald’s most well-known and enduring book, the haunting tale of little Diamond, a simple London cabman’s son and his dreamy encounters with the mysterious, wise, powerful, comforting, and occasionally frightening lady known as North Wind.
The story begins with a boy named Mossy listening one night to his Great-aunt's stories, fascinated by the tale of a magical golden key.
Non-Fiction
Originally published in 1868 by Macmillan & Co., New York. MacDonald wrote that “in this book I have sought to trace the course of our religious poetry from an early period of our literary history.”
Works of MacDonald’s founder discusses some of the ways C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald differed in their view of Hell.
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What is the use of this body of ours? It is the means of Revelation to us. It is by the body that we come into contact with Nature, with our fellow-men, with all their revelations of God to us.