FenderPriest
Puritan Board Junior
I've been revisiting Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, and after doing some reading on her I was surprised to discover that she was a Christian Universalist, much like George MacDonald. It got me wondering how I should think through benefiting from her life and work. I distinctly remember buying and then reading A Wrinkle in Time on a road trip when I was a boy, and it ignited my imagination! There's a sense in which she captures a beauty and joy and "dancing-ness" about the world around us that's left a deep mark upon me. However, I find it very curious that these two authors (L'Engle and MacDonald - I'm sure there are more, I simply know these two) were great story tellers, influenced by Christianity in a profound way, continue to influence Christian thinkers, and yet seemed to severely miss the mark in terms of Christian orthodoxy in their universalist affirmations. Have you thought through this issue? How do you think through benefiting from someone who professed Christ, missed the mark so profoundly in their confession, and yet reflect such a deep mark of the Biblical world in their writing? (And, for that matter, how does one think through the salvation of someone who professes to be a Christian Universalist? Or maybe that's a different question altogether...)