Rolland Hein, a Wheaton College English professor and expert on Scottish fantasy writer George MacDonald, died of complications from pancreatic cancer on March 10. He was 90.
Rolland Hein taught courses on contemporary British and American literature at Wheaton College and was an expert on 19th-century Scottish author and fantasy literature pioneer George MacDonald.
Hein was greatly influenced by one of his professors, Clyde S. Kilby, who introduced Hein to the writings of authors Lewis and MacDonald. A little more than a decade later, Kilby, who frequently corresponded with Lewis, founded the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton, which started correspondence between Kilby and Lewis.
In 1970, Hein joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught popular English literature courses. He also continued studying MacDonald’s works. “We’re talking about an imaginative experience, something that’s quite beyond the reach of the purely rational mind to grasp,” Hein told the audience. “Myth to me has a certain aura that inevitably surrounds truth, eternal truth, which is imaginatively confronted, imaginatively glimpsed in story, in fantasy particularly.“Many of you have read some of the fantasies of MacDonald or Lewis and can recall moments in which there was a flash of insight.
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