Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1
This is a Victorian novel that takes seriously the crisis of faith that shook the 19th century. Thomas Wingfold, a young curate, finds himself unable to preach from a faith he no longer certainty possesses. Meanwhile, Helen Lingard gazes out at stormy November weather, her internal restlessness mirroring his spiritual turbulence. George Bascombe, a blunt secular thinker, forces Wingfold to confront the gap between his profession and his beliefs. What emerges is an honest exploration of what it means to live with integrity when your innermost convictions conflict with your role in the world. George MacDonald, better known for his fantasy works like Phantastes, demonstrates remarkable psychological insight into the torment of a man who cannot pretend to believe, and a woman confined by the limitations of her era. The novel endures because it captures a specific historical moment when traditional faith began to crack, and does so with compassion for all its struggling characters.
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“If this be a type of the way the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children," said the curate to himself, "there must be more in the progression of history than political economy can explain. It would drive us to believe in an economy wherein rather the well-being of the whole was the result of individual treatment, and not the well-being of the individual the result of the management of the whole?””
— George MacDonald
“The perplexed man cried out within the clergyman, and pressed for some acknowledgment from God of the being he had made. But”
— George MacDonald
“Those who gain no experience are those who shirk the King's highway for fear of encountering the Duty seated by the roadside.””
— George MacDonald
“Perhaps you have had more friends than you are aware of. You owe something to the man, for instance, who, with his outspoken antagonism, roused you first to a sense of what was lacking to you." "I hope I shall be grateful to God for it some day," returnedWingfold. "I cannot say that I feel much obligation to Mr. Bascombe.And yet when I think of it,”
— George MacDonald
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