{"product_id":"a-third-testament-9780316589208","title":"A Third Testament","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Third Testament\u003c\/strong\u003e by Muggerridge, Malcolm. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780316589208.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern pilgrim explores the spiritual wanderings of Augustine, Pascal, Blake, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bonhoeffer. Based on a television series on these notable thinkers, A Third Testament brings to life seven men whose names are familiar enough, but whose iconoclastic spiritual wanderings make for unforgettable reading. Muggeridge s concise biographies are an accessible and manageable introduction to these spiritual giants who carried on the testament to the reality of God begun in the Old and New Testaments.\nSt. Augustine, a headstrong young hedonist and speechwriter who turned his back on money and prestige in order to serve Christ\nBlaise Pascal, a brilliant mathematician who pursued scientific knowledge but warned people against thinking they could live without God\nWilliam Blake, a magnificent artist-poet who pled passionately for the life of the spirit and warned of the blight that materialism would usher in\nSoren 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\nFyodor Dostoevsky, a debt-ridden writer and sometime prisoner who found, in the midst of squalor and political turmoil, the still small voice of God\nLeo Tolstoy, a grand old novelist who swung between idealism and depression, loneliness and fame and a duel awareness of his sinfulness and God s grace\nDietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor whose writings and agonized involvement in a plot to kill Hitler cost him his life, but continue to inspire millions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"LITTLE, BROWN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44893587406901,"sku":"ByrdShop_0316589209","price":226.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780316589208_638f6af4-ac26-42e1-be58-29513c38411f.jpg?v=1781059873","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-third-testament-9780316589208","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}