His Christian theology…was unadorned but profound. He discovered the work of God in the mundane events of every day, which he dubbed the “holy present,” and this ideology infuses his work.…This collection portrays a faith-filled, loving man who sincerely embraced his role as a child of God and shared the fruits of that journey with the world.

Publishers Weekly

I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. … Nowhere else outside the New Testament have I found terror and comfort so intertwined. I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master.

C. S. Lewis

I’m delighted that Plough has produced this amazingly imaginative volume! Congratulations to Marianne Wright on her first-rate editorial vision and implementation.

Dr. Ian Randall, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide

When he comes to be more carefully studied as a mystic, as I think he will be when people discover the possibility of collecting jewels scattered in a rather irregular setting, it will be found, I fancy, that he stands for a rather important turning point in the history of Christendom.

G. K. Chesterton

The greatest work of theology you read this year could be Plough Publishing’s The Gospel in George MacDonald… MacDonald never strove to be a great theologian. He wanted to be a good father and faithful servant of his Father. And that is why he must be read, for he calls us to the perfect image of the invisible God, Jesus Christ. He calls us not to know about Christ, but to know Him truly – to love the Real.

Tessa Carman, Mere Orthodoxy

In his power to project his inner life into images, events, beings, landscapes which are valid for all, he is one of the most remarkable writers of the nineteenth century.

W. H. Auden