{"id":8208,"date":"2018-12-21T20:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T02:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2018-12-21T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T02:01:58","slug":"give-a-gift-to-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8208","title":{"rendered":"GIVE A GIFT TO YOURSELF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles: Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment (Hansen Lectureship Series)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B07JQDP746\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cr-widget-FocalReviews\" data-hook=\"cr-widget-FocalReviews\"><span class=\"a-size-base review-text\" data-hook=\"review-body\"><strong>This is the third book I&#8217;ve read by Tim Larsen. I interviewed him on the other two books.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is so very much to like about this book. I will simply list out four of my favorite things about the book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some shorter books like Larsen&#8217;s pack in plenty of content. If a lecture series becomes a book (as is the case with this book), there is a better than average chance that the smaller size book will have great content. You can see this with books (from another lecture series) like Andrew Delbanco&#8217;s fascinating, <em>The Real American Dream<\/em>. Larsen&#8217;s book does not disappoint as it offers the reader plenty of material.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Even though there is much content, the writing is lucid and engaging.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Larsen is an eminent historian of nineteenth-century Britain. You can always count on him to do careful archival work and know the primary sources. This book showcases those strengths.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Larsen is sensitive, as was George MacDonald, to Christians who struggle with doubt. As one who knows firsthand these struggles, I greatly appreciate Larsen&#8217;s treatment in this book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps it is too late for a Christmas present, but how about a present for yourself for the new year?!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third book I&#8217;ve read by Tim Larsen. I interviewed him on the other two books. There is so very much to like about this book. I will simply list out four of my favorite things about the book: Some shorter books like Larsen&#8217;s pack in plenty of content. If a lecture series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,43,26,84,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-christianity","category-doubt","category-literature","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8209,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}