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  • 12 - Sermons

  • from Part II - Genres
  • Edited by Daniel Gabelman, King’s Ely, John Patrick Pazdziora, Aoyama Gakuin University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to George MacDonald
    Published online:
    10 October 2026
    Print publication:
    03 December 2026, pp 178-190

  • Summary

    Although MacDonald is chiefly known as a literary figure, he saw himself first and foremost as a preacher, preaching thousands of sermons across his career and publishing five volumes explicitly on spirituality. This chapter explores these sermons, both spoken and unspoken, seeing them as metaphysical landscapes providing a space and a medium for theological reflection and spiritual formation. MacDonald’s theological aesthetic is to be found not only in the synthetic biblical hermeneutic he employed but also in the sense of the transcendent which pervades his sermons; his modus operandi in the sermons is the divine sonship, with an emphasis on ‘our real life with Christ concealed’, a distinctive feature of Scottish spirituality. MacDonald was a spiritual explorer, always in search of the inexhaustible ‘treasures of darkness’.