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Mystery and Sacrament in George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin

by

Vigen Guroian

$3.00

Presented at the CiRCE Fall Regional Conference 2022.

G. K. Chesterton credited The Princes and the Goblin with opening his eyes to a sacramental way of looking at the world that his conversion to Roman Catholicism only “crowed and confirmed.” In this lecture I endeavor to show how that vision unfolds in MacDonald’s story and what it tells us about the spiritual maturation of the story’s principal protagonist, the princess Irene.