A Third Testament
142 pages
Based on an acclaimed TV series, this illuminating collection of portraits brings to life seven men in search of God--seven maverick thinkers whose seeking for Christian discipleship make for unforgettable reading.
Saint Augustine, a headstrong young hedonist and speechwriter who turned his back on money and prestige in order to serve Christ... Blaise Pascal, a brilliant scientist who warned people against thinking they could live without God...
William Blake, a magnificent artist and poet who pled passionately for the life of the spirit and foresaw the plight that materialism would usher in...
Soren Kierkegaard, a renegade philosopher who spent most of his life at odds with the church, and insisted that every person must find his own way to God...
Fyodor Dostoevsky, a debt-ridden writer and sometime prisoner who found, in the midst of squalor and political turmoil, the still small voice of God...
Leo Tolstoy, a grand old novelist who swung between idealism and depression, loneliness and fame--and a dual awareness of his sinfulness and God's grace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor whose writings--and agonized involvement in a plot to kill Hitler--cost him his life, but continue to inspire millions.
The Author: Often compared to G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis, British writer and television commentator Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) is best known for having introduced Mother Teresa to the English-speaking world through his classic biography Something Beautiful for God. A tart-tongued agnostic for most of his life, Muggeridge converted to Catholicism at 80. But he never stopped asking questions, which surely explains his enduring appeal.
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"Since the programs whose scripts form this book were released for screening, they have been shown on various PBS channels in the United States, several times on the CBC network in Canada, and once on the BBC. Also—particularly pleasing to me—on numerous campuses. To judge by letters from viewers and reviews, the concept behind the programs—how throughout history God’s spies mysteriously turn up as and when required, and can be fully recognized only in retrospect—would seem to have clearly emerged. For me personally, too, doing the commentaries has been a great clarification over and above identifying God’s Spies and specifying their role in particular circumstances and at a particular time. It has made me grasp as never before that God has an inner strategic (as distinct from tactical) purpose for His creation, thereby enabling me to see through the Theater of the Absurd, which is what life seems to be, and into the Theater of Fearful Symmetry, which is what it is. Thus reality sorts itself out, like film coming into sync, and everything that exists, from the tiniest atom to the illimitable universe in which our tiny earth revolves, everything that happens, from the most trivial event to the most seemingly momentous, makes one pattern, tells one story, is comprehended in one prayer: Thy will be done."
—Malcolm Muggeridge