Jesus, the Man Who Lives

“Muggeridge’s masterpiece, the greatest achievement of his life as a writer.”—The London Times

“This is a welcome republication of a fervent testimony to the ‘most stupendous event in human history.’ Muggeridge confesses “the longing of a sinful heart like mine,” but that doesn't blunt his brash declaration of the greatness of our Lord one bit. Muggeridge saw fifty years ago what was coming—an ever more aggressive secularism, the dogmatism of science, commercialism infiltrating sites of worship—and so returns to the basic facts of birth, ministry, death, and resurrection, all told in limpid prose and pointed wit. ‘Either Jesus never was or he still is,’ Muggeridge concludes, and even skeptics, if they are honest, know the first option is not credible.”—Mark Bauerlein, First Things

“Jesus, the Man Who Lives, a work of extraordinary beauty, insight, and grace, is the culmination of fifty years of spiritual searching on Muggeridge's part. This gifted ‘vendor of words’ had long before rejected secularist and totalitarian idols and the concomitant temptations to make Jesus a fashionable humanitarian teacher, political liberator, or rabblerouser rather than the Incarnate Son of God. Putting aside the sophisticated conceits of biblical scholarship, Muggeridge makes the Jesus of the Gospels shine again in all His luminosity.”—Daniel J. Mahoney, author, The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity

“Imagine an Imperial Roman tourist—worldly-wise, witty, cynical—who mockingly asks John the Baptist to baptize him, but emerges from the River Jordan wiser, still witty, but no longer cynical, shouting ‘I was blind but now I see,’ and then '‘Come on in, the water's lovely.’ Malcolm Muggeridge wrote the book that Roman would have written, and Peter Hitchens witnessed his transformation from the river bank.”—John O'Sullivan, author, The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World

“Malcolm Muggeridge started out from where many people end today: unbelieving, cynical about modern politics, all too familiar with the evils of the world, determined not to be duped by the lies and false pieties around us. And yet his story is one that repeats itself in every age when someone is touched by unexpected grace: the discovery of truth, of real goodness behind the false facades, of things worth living—and dying—for. In Muggeridge those discoveries were given a voice of rare eloquence, passion, and persuasiveness. To read Jesus, the Man Who Lives, is to come into contact not only with the man from Nazareth, but with one of his most ardent modern followers, an example for all of us living in an age very much like his own.”—Robert Royal, author, A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century

“A wonderful man, a great wit and a brilliant, brilliant analyst.”—William F. Buckley Jr.

"The voice of a craftsman of the English language—and a Christian voice which speaks with all the more splendor because it was born from a seed that was full of doubt, cynicism and self-promotion."—Canon David Winter

“A gifted writer and acerbic wit.”—R. R. Reno