"By far the most penetrating and exhaustive study that I have seen of the origin in George MacDonald's writings of so many of C. S. Lewis's ideas. Jeff McInnis's sensitive and highly informed judgments greatly enrich our understanding of their imaginative and devotional achievement. A genuinely enriching read for any earnest Christian mind."
Rolland Hein, Professor Emeritus, Wheaton College
Author of Through the Year with George MacDonald
"Jeff McInnis has written a book that henceforth will be indispensable to all students of C. S. Lewis who seek to understand the oft-mentioned but till now not fully fathomed debt of his literary and theological imagination to George MacDonald. His well conceived study has the further benefit of doing considerable justice to the angular graces of MacDonald's anti-Calvinistic understanding of redemption. McInnis's chapter on "The Chivalry of God" finds an indispensable key to this great, but out-of-time conversation between two lay theologians of enduring interest and literary power."
David Lyle Jeffrey, Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities, Baylor University
Author of Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice
Jeff McInnis (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is Professor of English at Panola College in Carthage, Texas.