The Hope of the Gospel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Hope of the Gospel, credited to George MacDonald, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Hope of the Gospel by George MacDonald. Read by Jordan Perhaps most well-known for his fairytales and fantasy stories such as The Golden Key and Phantastes, or for his poetry, George MacDonald was a great spiritual master of the nineteenth century. He spent several years as a minister in his native Scotland; however he was forced to resign his position due to ill health. He had a profound influence on such later writers as G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis – the latter of whom considered MacDonald to be his spiritual father, and edited an anthology of his works. In The Hope of the Gospel, with his ever sagely style, MacDonald explores the essential heart of the gospel that is so often overlooked, both in his day and ours. Dissatisfied with cheap and hasty interpretations of Scripture, MacDonald invites us beneath the surface in a heartfelt meditation on all that Christ came to accomplish. (Summary by Jordan)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Hope of the Gospel
• Author credits: George MacDonald
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 6:27:35

Catalogue topics

• macdonald
• george
• gospel
• scripture
• audio books

Track guide

1. 01 - Salvation from Sin - Part 1 — 17:41
2. 02 - Salvation from Sin - Part 2 — 16:01
3. 03 - The Remission of Sins - Part 1 — 13:18
4. 04 - The Remission of Sins - Part 2 — 14:50
5. 05 - Jesus in the World - Part 1 — 15:34
6. 06 - Jesus in the World - Part 2 — 16:09
7. 07 - Jesus and His Fellow Townsmen — 28:05
8. 08 - The Heirs of Heaven and Earth - Part 1 — 16:51
9. 09 - The Heirs of Heaven and Earth - Part 2 — 15:21
10. 10 - Sorrow the Pledge of Joy — 29:45
11. 11 - God's Family - Part 1 — 21:01
12. 12 - God's Family - Part 2 — 16:54
13. 13 - The Reward of Obedience — 20:06
14. 14 - The Yoke of Jesus - Part 1 — 14:38
15. 15 - The Yoke of Jesus - Part 2 — 19:20
16. 16 - The Salt and the Light of the World — 24:57
17. 17 - The Right Hand and the Left — 23:46
18. 18 - The Hope of the Universe - Part 1 — 25:30
19. 19 - The Hope of the Universe - Part 2 — 38:04

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