A Third Testament
A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky
Malcolm Muggeridge
Based on an acclaimed TV series, this illuminating collection of portraits brings to life seven men in search of God–seven maverick thinkers whose spiritual wanderings 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.
Praise for A Third Testament
Publishers Weekly
Muggeridge is a witty, sharp-eyed, skeptical observer…He can be amusing, trenchant, exasperating, unfair or absurd…What he can apparently never be is dull.
Peter Kreeft
Boston College
After Chesterton, Lewis, and Tolkien, there is no one I would rather read than Muggeridge. A Johnny-come-lately convert to Christianity, he is also a great wordsmith.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Muggeridge was a most eloquent lay apostle of Christianity …and a journalist with few, if any, peers.
Thomas Howard
St. John’s Seminary
Both a wag and a shrewd observer of history and humbug, Muggeridge brings alive seven colossi of the Western intellectual tradition–and shows that the majority of them, ironically, are in fact quite counter-traditional.
Richard John Neuhaus
First Things
A Third Testament reveals the gifts that made “St. Mug” such an effective apologist for the Christian way in his latter days. This scintillating little book continues to provoke, charm, and persuade.
Paul C. Vitz
New York University
In times like these, that try our souls, everybody needs a book like this: it is readable, stimulating, and substantive. It leaves you with the same feeling you have after a wonderful meal–though in this case, of course, the feeling lasts longer.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
Author
God has always written his stories in the lives of those who love him, even those whose love is marked by struggle. In this marvelous short book we encounter seven of those incarnate stories, written by an eight.
Charles W. Colson
Prison Fellowship
This classic occupies a spot on my shelf of favorite books.
John Stott
Author
Muggeridge was a true prophet of the 20th century…a voice crying in the wilderness.
