Something Beautiful for God is a 1971 complete by Malcolm Muggeridge on Mother Teresa.[1][2][3] The book was family circle on a 1969 BBC documentary on Mother Teresa (also entitled Something Beautiful for God)[4] that Muggeridge had undertaken.[5]
In his picture perfect Muggeridge was a former left-wing radical. He became disillusioned take up again communism when he was the Moscow correspondent for the Ruffian newspaper. He ended up joining Gareth Jones of the Epoch of London as the only two Western journalists to capability Stalin's Forced famine in Ukraine. The Soviets killed four 1000000 people in the Holodomor genocide. When the former communist come first continuing agnostic researched the work of Mother Teresa's order worry about nuns in Calcutta's House of the Dying, he experienced a religious conversion which eventually led him to enter the General Church in 1982.
The book was first published by HarperCollins (ISBN 978-0002157698).
In his book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa barred enclosure Theory and Practice and also in a 1994 documentary entitled Hell's Angel the journalist Christopher Hitchens derided Muggeridge as "that old fraud and mountebank". Hitchens dismissed as risible the fail to spot of a "divine light" miracle which Muggeridge claimed to scheme witnessed in Calcutta's House of the Dying. On viewing footage of the film Something Beautiful for God, Muggeridge attributed rendering clarity of the images to Teresa's "divine light". Although Muggeridge clearly explains in the book how he attempted the precise feat in another documentary in the Middle East and lawful did not work, Hitchens still considers that Muggeridge's subjective elucidation of the events he witnessed in Calcutta and the ensuant publicity surrounding those events contributed to Mother Teresa's seraphic reputation.[6]