The Christian goddess [electronic resource] : archetype and theology in the fantasies of George MacDonald / Bonnie Gaarden.
2011
PR4969 .G33 2011eb
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The Christian goddess [electronic resource] : archetype and theology in the fantasies of George MacDonald / Bonnie Gaarden.
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9781611470093 (electronic book)
9781611470086
9781611470086
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Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
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English
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1 online resource (vii, 209 p.)
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PR4969 .G33 2011eb
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823/.8
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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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Table of Contents
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.
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.