father of 11 children—he is a window into the Victorian period in all its dizzying diversity. MacDonald was not a systematic theologian, and it is impossible to fit him into a neatly defined box. He attracts (and sometimes offends) Protestants and Catholics, evangelicals and liberals. He combines a Calvinist’s rock-solid assurance of God’s sovereignty with a Romantic’s love of nature and a hope for the salvation of all people that is reminiscent of the early church father Origen. He was enormously