Synopsis
By 1971, Mother Teresa and her work had already made a powerful impact in the religious world, and particularly in the Catholic Church (Pope Paul VI had bestowed upon her the Pope John XXIII Peace Award in January, 1971), but it was the publication of secular British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge's unblinking portrait, "Something Beautiful for God," that turned the eyes of the world on her work of compassion. While the subject matter explains much of the book's impact (more than 50 books have since been published about Mother Teresa, but this was one of the earliest, and the first by a major commercial publisher), Muggeridge's worldly literary voice as an urbane iconoclast and the former editor of "Punch," the British satirical magazine, and his extraordinary way with words and wit made his frank study of Mother Teresa and her work at once both more accessible and more credible to secular audiences, initiating a wave of wider public recognition that would culminate with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 8 years later. Concise, well-written, and enormously affecting in its understatedness, Muggeridge's book squarely confronts the central issue of human suffering illuminated by Mother Teresa's life and work.
By late 1971, Mother Teresa and her work had already made a powerful impact in the religious world, particularly in the Catholic Church, whose leader, Pope Paul VI, had bestowed upon her the Pope John XXIII Peace Award early that year. But it was the publication of this unblinking portrait by British journalist, and former editor of the British satirical magazine, "Punch", Malcolm Muggeridge, that turned the eyes of the world on her work. While the subject matter explains much of the book's impact (more than 50 books have since been published about Mother Teresa, but this was one of the earliest, and the first by a major commercial publisher), Muggeridge's urbane iconoclasm and his extraordinary way with words and wit made his frank study of Mother Teresa and her work at once both more accessible and more credible to secular audiences, initiating a wave of wider public recognition that would culminate with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize eight years later. Concise, well-written, and enormously affecting in its understatedness, Muggeridge's book squarely confronts the central issue of human suffering illuminated by Mother Teresa's life and work.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1986-11-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 156 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 4.8 oz |
Publisher's Note
No woman alive today has inspired so many with her faith and a compassion so all encompassing. As she daily embraces the least of the least in her arms, Mother Theresa challenges the whole world to greater acts of service and understanding love.
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