Theology and George Macdonald’s Paul Faber, surgeon
Introduction My small obsession of searching out literary novels of Christian experience1 led me a couple of years ago to George Macdonald’s Thomas Wingfold, curate, the first novel of his Wingfold Trilogy (see this post). I was fascinated by Macdonald’s capacity to depict its title character’s coming to faith in a way that had the […]
About George MacDonald’s novel Thomas Wingfold, Curate
A couple of months ago, I wrote about novels of Christian experience, and more recently I asked whether The Brothers Karamazov was an example of this genre. Thomas Wingfold, curate is a novel that epitomises what I mean by the term. Thomas Wingfold, curate, published in 1876, is the first novel in George MacDonald’s Wingfold […]