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Curates Awakening (MacDonald / Phillip Series)

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This book is a well written exploration of the guilt we all carry around with us and how we find the strength to face it. A surprising twist to more modern ideas of how we deal with guilt. Definitely worth owning.

MacDonald is real. He understands people, their trains of thought, their failings, their desires. Through his characters, MacDonald provokes deep thinking and self-examination subtley and effectively. What makes him a good writer is that he isn't forming a plot so that he can preach a sermon or say all the things he wants to say. The story is purposeful and engaging and the dialogue is rarely tedious. I highly reccomend this book along with the rest of the series. The book will do more than keep you AWAKE...

This is my absolute favorite of MacDonald's work. If you are looking for a place to start - this is it. This book addresses many of the questions and issues raised by Christians and non-Christians living today. Questions of God, truth, belief and existence. MacDonald draws out these questions and gives answers in the rich and multi-layered narrative style he is well known for. An absolute must read!

This is the story of Thomas Wingfold, Curate, who has settled into his first parish. He comes to realize he has chosen the ministry merely as a profession and honestly doesn't know what he believes.

It was very very good and made me think about Jesus and God's love for us. It is a very honest book and I cried several times as I read it. It has a great theme of forgiveness and mercy and a honest search for truth.

I've read only a couple George Macdonald books until this one!! This book really shows why this author was so influential in C.S.Lewis' life. Rev. Wingfold is the main charater. He is encouraged to a vocation in the church by his well meaning family so he'll have an occupation. He is faithful to his vocation for quite a few years in his way. He really is rather an unremarkable fellow until a visitor in his church, an infidel, challenges him as to what he believes. This really wakes him up to the fact that he really doesn't believe much of anything. This is really a very poor review for a wonderful, very easy to read old book. There are lots of interesting secondary characters, like Helen who is also clueless, and her young brother who is an addict who commits a horrendous crime while under the infuence. Then their is the dwarf and his niece who befriend the Curate in his quest for truth and his growth in the faith. This is the first book of three in a series so the book also introduces the doctor of the next book and the characters of this book continue delightfully into the next one. Not so much into the third one. If you like to be challenged in your faith as well as delighted by a GOOD story you shouln't miss this one.