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George MacDonald's Romantic Christianity in Lilith

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From: Renascence
Date: 20020101
Author:McCann, Janet

GOETHE'S Faust is such an odd, spectacular mix of theology and Romanticism. Few would consider it a Christian work, yet its mysticism wells in part from Christian sources. Looking at its welter of philosophy, science, and myth, one wonders if there could be a Christian Romantic, and what it would be: how could one explore the self and celebrate it, while at the same time suspecting it, finding its nature tending toward evil? Romanticism is often considered the opposite of Christianity in the same way it is thought of as the opposite of Classicism: order versus disorder, discipline versus ...

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