Each new generation rediscovers George MacDonald, as his son Greville predicted. The Truth in Jesus brings together a new collection of sermons and essays that explore the source and essence of truth. Thanks to Michael Phillips's skillful editing, these thoughtful insights into what truth is, how we come to know truth, and how God reveals truth through his Son speak to readers as clearly today as they did during MacDonald's lifetime. Phillips retains MacDonald's message and style, then adds his perceptive commentary on MacDonald's work, making the nineteenth-century Scottish writer's wisdom accessible to twenty-first-century readers.
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence."
Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.
MacDonald grew up influenced by his Congregational Church, with an atmosphere of Calvinism. But MacDonald never felt comfortable with some aspects of Calvinist doctrine; indeed, legend has it that when the doctrine of predestination was first explained to him, he burst into tears (although assured that he was one of the elect). Later novels, such as Robert Falconer and Lilith, show a distaste for the idea that God's electing love is limited to some and denied to others.
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