At Highbury Theological College, he received his divinity degree, and in 1850 he became a pastor of a Congregational church in Arundel. Transatlantic fameĪfter being raised in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, by devout Calvinist parents, he attended King's College in Aberdeen.
This poet, preacher, and writer of fairy tales was taken with the quote, "Our life is no dream but it ought to become one, and perhaps will." His vision of the mystery that surrounds us and the fantastic world awaiting us enthralled readers in both Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Samuel Mills leads Haystack Prayer MeetingĪmerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
While he reserved a place in his theology for hell (though not an eternal one), George MacDonald was more fascinated with God's triumphant love: "I believe that no man is ever condemned for any sin except one-that he will not leave his sins and come out of them, and be the child of him who is his Father." Timeline "With his divine alchemy, he turns not only water into wine, but common things into radiant mysteries, yea, every meal into a Eucharist, and the jaws of death into an outgoing gate."
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