03381nam 2200697Ia 450 991046496200332120200520144314.01-283-07193-297866130719341-61147-009-9(CKB)2560000000072367(EBL)683546(OCoLC)714569553(SSID)ssj0000535012(PQKBManifestationID)12179703(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535012(PQKBWorkID)10519453(PQKB)11069677(MiAaPQ)EBC683546(Au-PeEL)EBL683546(CaPaEBR)ebr10464529(CaONFJC)MIL307193(EXLCZ)99256000000007236720110203d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Christian goddess[electronic resource] archetype and theology in the fantasies of George MacDonald /Bonnie GaardenMadison [N.J.] Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield20111 online resource (327 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61147-008-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Goddesses?; Chapter one; The Great Mother; Chapter Two; The Terrible Mother; Chapter Three; The Magic Cauldron; Chapter four; The Muse and the Divine Child; Chapter five; The Great Goddess- The Left Hand of God; Chapter Six; Biblical Sophia; Chapter Seven; Victorian Sophia; Chapter eight; Patroness of Heroes; Chapter nine; The Kore; Conclusion: Witches and the God of Love; Notes; Works Cited; About the AuthorThe Christian Goddess examines the goddess-figures in the fantasies and fairy tales of George MacDonald. Bonnie Gaarden asserts that MacDonald, a Victorian Scot who wrote one of the first adult fantasy novels produced in English and became a powerful influence on C. S. Lewis, also 'anticipated the modern quest for the feminine face of God. ' Gaarden analyzes the feminine divinities in MacDonald's fantasy literature both as archetypes identified by Carl Jung and his followers and as emblems of MacDonald's Romantic Christian theology, which couples orthodox Trinitarianism with universalism-the bGoddesses in literatureFemininity of God in literatureArchetype (Psychology) in literatureTheology in literatureChristian fictionHistory and criticismFantasy fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismChristianity and literatureScotlandHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Goddesses in literature.Femininity of God in literature.Archetype (Psychology) in literature.Theology in literature.Christian fictionHistory and criticism.Fantasy fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.Christianity and literatureHistory823/.8Gaarden Bonnie1953-979244MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464962003321The Christian goddess2232269UNINA