One of his works that offers itself to such a "double" Images that can be read with or without reference to the Christian God. Immanence over God's transcendence, MacDonald created literary A devout theist, but one who emphasized God's Ushered in by poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts from Wordsworth to Traditional Christianity, and the more secular human-development models MacDonald's writing, especially his fantasy writing, thusįorms a sort of crux between the supernaturalism/salvationism of Salvific process as taking place over ages. Lifetime, MacDonald erased the significance of death, and saw the "salvation" as a temporal state attainable in a human "afterlife" of traditional religion, seeing So while the Romantics erased the significance of the That everyman's "Ethical Evolution" does not cease withīodily death, but might take millennia of purgation and spiritual Salvation to this life, as orthodox Christians did, MacDonald conceived Human existence out over eternity while limiting one's chance for Tendency if not the explicit claim of the Romantic schemes, or spreading Limiting both human existence and development to this life, as was the MacDonald followed the same tendency on a different tack. Knowledge/enlightenment/vision that constitutes paradise (188). Stages of conflict and resolution to attain, finally, the mature Life and education of the individual, as he/she moves through successive The Romantic salvific scheme takes place within the Into time for the length of human history, and ends, after theĪpocalypse, in eternity again) to what Abrams calls aīildungsgeschichte. In us," are "always trying to meet" in the God-excludingīox of our conscious minds (Greville MacDonald 280).Īnother way the Romantics secularized Christian concepts was toĪssimilate the Christian Heilsgeschichte (which begins in eternity, dips "God all about us," and our Christ-selves, or "God who is Way "home" to God because God was irrevocably present in theĬore, true Self (what he poetically called the "Christ-self" Humans as the "saved" remnant of a race consigned to eternalĭamnation instead, he held that all people would eventually find their The traditional belief that Christians were privileged above all other Humanity much about the Divine Being (Sermons 1:23). To humanity, was God's direct self-expression and could teach MacDonald held the Romantic opinion that Nature, far from being inferior Humans, as spiritual beings, superior to the rest of the natural worldĪnd the sole immortals in a Creation otherwise destined to annihilation, Where the traditional Christianity of his day saw MacDonald exhibits traces of the same tendency, but rather thanĪbolishing God and distributing God's attributes between humanityĪnd Nature, he locates God and God's operations primarily in 'Creation,'" etc.) formerly assigned to the Deity (Abramsĩ0). Soul to two elements: the human mind and Nature, which between themĪssimilated the functions ("'holy powers,'
They usually reduced the Augustinian triad of God, Nature and the human For instance, in writing about human spiritual development, Philosophers tended, in many cases deliberately, to secularize ChristianĬoncepts. Romantic, and his religious thought stretches orthodox Christianity toward Romanticism. George MacDonald was a passionate Christian and a passionate More things it will mean." ("Fantastic Imagination" 317) "A genuine work of art must mean many things the truer its art, the APA style: 'The Golden Key': a double reading.'The Golden Key': a double reading." Retrieved from
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