George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles by Timothy Larsen

Author:Timothy Larsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christianity;literature;Wade Center;Wheaton college;Hansen lecture;Hansen lectureship;faith;art;the arts;MacDonald;George MacDonald;Christian literature;literature;Christianity and the arts;Christian art;Christian writer;faith and the arts;literature and faith;Tolkien;Lewis;Chesterton;Williams;Sayers;Barfield;fantasy literature;miracles;naturalism;supernatural;miraculous;fantasy
ISBN: 9780830874040
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2018-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

For the world is—allow us the homely figure—the human being turned inside out. All that moves in the mind is symbolized in Nature. Or, to use another more philosophical, and certainly not less poetic figure, the world is a sensuous analysis of humanity, and hence an inexhaustible wardrobe for the clothing of human thought. Take any word expressive of emotion—take the word emotion itself—and you will find that its primary meaning is of the outer world. In the swaying of the woods, in the unrest of the “wavy plain,” the imagination saw the picture of a well-known condition of the human mind; and hence the word emotion.14

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