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Hope of the Gospel

George MacDonald

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In The Hope of the Gospel, with his ever sagely style, George MacDonald explores the essential heart of the gospel that is so often overlooked, both in his day and ours. Dissatisfied with cheap and hasty interpretations of Scripture, MacDonald invites us beneath the surface in a heartfelt meditation on all that Christ came to accomplish.

MacDonald was a great spiritual master of the nineteenth century. He spent several years as a minister in his native Scotland; however he was forced to resign his position due to ill health. He had a profound influence on such later writers as G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis – the latter of whom considered MacDonald to be his spiritual father, and edited an anthology of his works.
ken literally, says, 'Wist ye not that I must be in the——of my father?' The authorized version supplies business; the revised, house. There is no noun in the Greek, and the article 'the' is in the plural. To translate it as literally as it can be translated, making of it an English sentence, the saying stands, 'Wist ye not that I must be in the things of my father?' The plural article implies the English things; and the question is then, What things does he mean? The word might mean affairs or business; but why the plural article should be contracted to mean house, I do not know. In a great wide sense, no doubt, the word house might be used, as I am about to show, but surely not as meaning the temple.

He was arguing for confidence in God on the part of his parents, not for a knowledge of his whereabout. The same thing that made them anxious concerning him, prevented them from understanding his words—lack, namely, of faith in the Father. This, the one thing he came into the world to teach men, those words were meant to teach his parents. They are spirit and life, involving the one principle by which men shall live. They hold the same core as his words to his disciples in the storm, 'Oh ye of little faith!' Let us look more closely at them.

'Why did you look for me? Did you not know that I must be among my father's things?' What are we to understand by 'my father's things'? The translation given in the authorized version is, I think, as to the words themselves, a thoroughly justifiable one: 'I must be about my father's business,' or 'my father's affairs'; I refuse it for no other reason than that it does not fit the logic of the narrative, as does the word things, which besides opens to us a door of large and joyous prospect. Of course he was about his father's business, and they might know it and yet be anxious about him, not having a p

Caroline 03/15/2024
The gospel is simultaneously so simple that a child can understand it, yet so deep and rich that the smartest men can only scratch its surface.
Pretty sure I don't agree with everything MacDonald says here (my impression at one point was that he seemed to be indicating that it was possible for peopl
Avery 11/09/2023
The Goat.

This man is a fascinating character. I hear echoes of David Bentley Hart, CS Lewis, and Chesterton in his work (not a surprise since he was shaping for them). I also heard echos of early Anabaptists, which was just fun.
Anthony 09/25/2021
First few chapters were really good, latter half got a little less interesting.
Chris 09/05/2018
I listened to this in audio format, and I didn't always pay attention to every word. That being said, as with everything I read by George MacDonald, I love how this book challenges me and gets me thinking.

While MacDonald is deeply theological in his writings, he is not overly technical. He writes in
Ruth 08/07/2011
Although not in full agreement with MacDonald's interesting theory in the last section regarding the redemption of the animal kingdom (which shows disappointing touches of Darwinian influence), I found myself vastly encouraged by the rest of it and comforted once again by the hope of the Gospel.
Seymour 01/15/2011
Some clay and a lot of gold here. I copied swathes of this book into my journal, I cried a little, and I breathed the air of my first love again. Would I like to have it tattooed onto the inside of my eyelids? Yes please!

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