The Christian goddess [electronic resource] : archetype and theology in the fantasies of George MacDonald / Bonnie Gaarden.
Gaarden, Bonnie, 1953-
2011
PR4969 .G33 2011eb
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Title The Christian goddess [electronic resource] : archetype and theology in the fantasies of George MacDonald / Bonnie Gaarden.
Author Gaarden, Bonnie, 1953-
ISBN 9781611470093 (electronic book)
9781611470086
Imprint Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 209 p.)
Call Number PR4969 .G33 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.8
Summary The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald examines the British Victorian writer's employment of female figures to represent Deity. Such symbolism is extremely unusual for a Christian author of this period andanticipates the efforts of many modern theologians to develop an image of God as Mother. Bonnie Gaarden reads the goddess-figures in MacDonald's fantasies as both archetypes of the collective unconscious and as emblems articulating MacDonald's unique Christian theology, which is Trinitarian, Neo-Platonic, mystical, and universalist.
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Introduction: Why goddesses?
The Great Mother
The terrible mother
The magic cauldron
The muse and the divine child
The great goddess
Biblical Sophia
Victorian Sophia
Patroness of heroes
The Kore
Conclusion: Witches and the god of love.

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