George McDonald by History Nerds

He was fired from his church for saying God's love was too big. Dying and broke, he wrote stories that would quietly invent modern fantasy—and without him, there would be no Narnia, no Middle-earth.

In 1853, the Reverend George Mac Donald stood before his congregation in Arundel, England, and preached a sermon that would end his career. He said that God's love had no limits. That redemption wasn't reserved for a chosen few. That even the souls in hell might one day be saved-because divine love, if it was truly infinite, couldn't abandon anyone forever.  The congregation was horrified!