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Title: Knowing the Heart of God by George MacDonald ISBN: 0-7642-2312-7 Publisher: Bethany House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Knowing the Heart of God
Comment: George, MacDonald's "Knowing the Heart of God" assumes whom ever picks up this book is a Christian or is even incline to believe in (the Christian) god in the first place. I don't feel the writer did a very good job of taking into account the fact that in theism there are many concepts of God not to mention those who recognize more than one god. Knowing the Heart of God did not explain why George MacDonald is any more qualified than the next Christian to "know" the heart of God. Its interesting to note that if faith is all it takes then ALL religions are equally justified as Dan Barker so rightfully pointed out in his book "Losing Faith in Faith, if faith. Woefully lacking in any critical analysis and mostly based the appeal to faith Knowing the Heart of God is the stuff of good reading for the Courier.
Rating: 1
Summary: Where to get UNEDITED George MacDonald Books
Comment: This is for anyone (jacko97 especially) who likes to read the original author. I'm glad other's liked these edited books. The more that like GM the better. The original works can be found at: http://www.johannesen.com/ for hardback. Unabridged audio www.blackstoneaudio.com.
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Rating: 3
Summary: Too much of a good thing
Comment: So George MacDonald is the only named person -- well, forget Napoleon -- to appear in CS Lewis' *The Great Divorce* and with Jack's recommendation and clear respect, I finally found some MacDonald stuff -- supposedly -- only to find out that it's a compilation. Too bad Mr MacDonald wasn't clever enough to put this compilation together. I'm sure his work would have been much better. And that's the beef I have with this book: after all the hoopla about MacDonald's greatness as a writer/thinker, Phillips thinks he can improve on his work? Phillips' claims, "The fictional readings ... are not mere additions to the meaty sections of the text; they are equally vital to the reader who would learn ... ." ("Introduction", pg 13) Excuse me. Is Mr Phillips so inexpert that he doesn't know that even a merely good work has its own flow that is seriously disrupted by insertions? And that's the problem with Phillips' compilation: the insertions are merely distracting. They might be good, even great, but why do they have to interrupt? Put them in an Appendix so that I can just read MacDonald. But then I turn to the back of the book to see what else I can get of MacDonald's work from Bethany House, and I find that there's a bunch of stuff. All "edited for today's reader," and renamed; again, presumably, for "today's reader." Let's see. Macdonald wrote about 100 years ago, but must be brought up do date. Somebody has a fat head. Pulleeeeese, just give me MacDonald.
So I give MacDonald a 5+, Phillips gets a zero. Averages 3.
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Title: Diary of an Old Soul: 366 Writings for Devotional Reflection by George MacDonald ISBN: 0806627344 Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: George MacDonald by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0060653191 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Phantastes by George MacDonald ISBN: 0802860605 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1981 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Curate of Glaston: Three Dramatic Novels from Scotland's Beloved Storyteller by George MacDonald, Michael R. Phillips ISBN: 076422591X Publisher: Bethany House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Lilith by George MacDonald ISBN: 0802860613 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1981 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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