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Bishop's Progress

D. Keith Mano

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Description:This is a novel about two faiths and two men, in their desperate, emblematic confrontation: the modern cult of medical progress and the Christian religion--a famous surgeon pitted against an equally famous Episcopalian bishop. The former is a cynic, a genius, a man who has made surgical miracles commonplace. The latter is a radical Christian, author of the best-selling book, A God For Our Time, that has summarily rejected all supernatural tenets, all tradition and all ceremony in his faith. For these things the bishop has substituted only love: love with and without a capital letter, love as the sole vindication of human existence. The setting of Bishop's Progress is a huge, coldly efficient American hospital. The paraphernalia of the cult are omnipresent, oppressive--sophisticated instruments, artificial organs, the unsentimental probe of physical and mental privacy. The bishop is critically ill; he must submit to a major operation--and, therefore, he mus submit, as well, to the surgeon's uncompromising ritual, the ceremony of progress.The bishop's body is not alone in jeopardy. He must fear, too, for the condition of his soul. The bishop, whose creed is love, has not loved anything beyond himself and his tabby cat. In fact, the merest personal involvements exasperate him. He is vain, selfish and uniformly prejudiced against all minority groups. Others of the surgeon's patients--a polite Roman Catholic boy, an ancient Jewish plumbing contractor kept alive by means of a plastic heart valve, and a toothless, obscene bum wastrel who is noisily dying--surround him and intrude on his disinvolvement. He senses that his salvation is very much in doubt, and he must decide, within the twelve days of his testing, whether, indeed, his fame, his great but meretricious influence in the church, and his continued existence are worth the sacrifice of his immortal soul. The drama of the book is, at last, the conflict of two great faiths, embodied in two powerful surrogates--the medical with its insistence on a subject's utter obedience and its exaltation of things material; and the Christian which, finally, yields personal autonomy and submission only to God. Bishop's Progress is also a first novel of literary importance--in the grandeur of its writing and the beauty of its characterizations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bishop's Progress. To get started finding Bishop's Progress, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 356

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Release: 1968

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Description: This is a novel about two faiths and two men, in their desperate, emblematic confrontation: the modern cult of medical progress and the Christian religion--a famous surgeon pitted against an equally famous Episcopalian bishop. The former is a cynic, a genius, a man who has made surgical miracles commonplace. The latter is a radical Christian, author of the best-selling book, A God For Our Time, that has summarily rejected all supernatural tenets, all tradition and all ceremony in his faith. For these things the bishop has substituted only love: love with and without a capital letter, love as the sole vindication of human existence. The setting of Bishop's Progress is a huge, coldly efficient American hospital. The paraphernalia of the cult are omnipresent, oppressive--sophisticated instruments, artificial organs, the unsentimental probe of physical and mental privacy. The bishop is critically ill; he must submit to a major operation--and, therefore, he mus submit, as well, to the surgeon's uncompromising ritual, the ceremony of progress.The bishop's body is not alone in jeopardy. He must fear, too, for the condition of his soul. The bishop, whose creed is love, has not loved anything beyond himself and his tabby cat. In fact, the merest personal involvements exasperate him. He is vain, selfish and uniformly prejudiced against all minority groups. Others of the surgeon's patients--a polite Roman Catholic boy, an ancient Jewish plumbing contractor kept alive by means of a plastic heart valve, and a toothless, obscene bum wastrel who is noisily dying--surround him and intrude on his disinvolvement. He senses that his salvation is very much in doubt, and he must decide, within the twelve days of his testing, whether, indeed, his fame, his great but meretricious influence in the church, and his continued existence are worth the sacrifice of his immortal soul. The drama of the book is, at last, the conflict of two great faiths, embodied in two powerful surrogates--the medical with its insistence on a subject's utter obedience and its exaltation of things material; and the Christian which, finally, yields personal autonomy and submission only to God. Bishop's Progress is also a first novel of literary importance--in the grandeur of its writing and the beauty of its characterizations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bishop's Progress. To get started finding Bishop's Progress, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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