Reflections on Lilith
Lilith is the last fantasy novel that our father among the saints George MacDonald ever wrote and also his most theologically adventurous. It was published just 10 years before his death and one can see that he had been thinking a lot of what would come next after he died when he wrote this book, and the result is rather lovely. I first read this book several years ago when I first learned of George MacDonald. I read his Unspoken Sermons first and was amazed at the power, vitality, and truth within those pages, so I started picking up his fiction and Lilith was the first one I’d read. I will be the first to say that, even though he considered himself a poet, he was a much better preacher than a writer of fiction or poetry. He isn’t terrible, but he isn’t subtle, and I’ll just say that one doesn’t really read his books for the plot or characters. He is very heavy-handed and moralizes a lot and uses rather clunky...