Best Defense Is No Offense
I had hoped to find Malcolm Muggeridge more thought-provoking 40 years later and was rewarded. Not only is this the first Firing Line encounter with this formidable defender of Christianity since Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, taped in the Savoy Hotel in England, but one of the most challenging to keep up with. Beginning with liberalism and the Left and the noteable shadings of meaning between Mr. Buckely and Mr. Muggeridge as to their own homelands, they both take off covering good and evil, Anglican church foibles, the relevance of the New Testament gospels etc.; the disillusion and wanderings of youth via transcendentalism, the Beatles and meditation; Harold Wilson, Gladstone, Conrad Adenauer. Unexpectedly into this exploration of spirituality Mr. Buckley uttered one of his startling phrases that I had read in one of his books,"immenatize the eschaton," that caused no pause in the absorbing exchange of information between the devout Mr. Buckley and this illumator from the British Isles...
Incomparable and Engaging
Buckley is without equal, both as a provocative interviewer and as an author. Muggeridge is a truly unique and equally provocative character, whose path the Christianhood was marked by interesting trails, nonetheless the admiration and brotherly love shared by these accomplished men comes to life in this Firing Line video.
Warning, serious thinkers only !!!
The subject matter is just a relevant today as it was 40 years ago. This show is the standard by which
today’s political conversation should be judged. This is serious commentary without the dogma relied upon by politicians today .
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