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John Arthur Goodchild (1851–1914) was a physician, and later author of several works of poetry and mysticism, most famously ''Light of the West''. According to Benham (see below) Goodchild had a private medical practice in Bordighera, Italy, serving mainly expatriate Britons. From 1873 until the early 1900s he stayed in Italy during summers and returned to the UK in winters. Goodchild was an antiquarian influenced by British Israelite ideas and the Golden Dawn esoteric group. He was friends with William Sharp (who wrote as Fiona Macleod), who dedicated his final literary work ''The Winged Destiny: Studies in the Spiritual History of the Gael'' to Goodchild. He saw Glastonbury, Iona (Scotland) and Devenish Island (Ireland) as being a triune of holy sites in the British Isles. ==Works== *''Somnia Medici'' (1884) - poetry *''The Sage of Sant' Ampelio'' (1890) - fiction *''A Fairy Godfather'' (1890) - fairy tale *''Tales in Verse'' (1893) - poetry *''Lyrics'' (1893) - poetry *''The Book of Tephi'' (1897) - poetry *''The Light of the West'' (1898) In ''The Light of the West'' Goodchild advanced the theory that under the influence of the Roman church, the feminine had become neglected in Christianity, and that it was the destiny of a revitalised Celtic church to restore the feminine to due prominence in Christian life and thought. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Goodchild」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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