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""The Soul of a Bishop tells the story of a spiritual crisis that leads Edward Scrope, Lord Bishop of Princhester, to give up his diocese in England's industrial heartland and leave the Anglican Church. Troubled during the World War I by doctrinal doubts and a sense of the irrelevance of his Anglicism as well as nervousness and insomnia, a crisis is precipitated by a visit to a wealthy parishioner's home where he meets an extremely wealthy American widow, Lady Sunderbund. To her he speaks for the first time of his religious discontent. Shortly thereafter he takes a drug that, instead of mitigating his symptoms, gives him "a new and more vivid apprehension of things." The bishop experiences a mystical vision of "the Angel of God" and then God in the North Library of the Athenaeum Club, London. He emerges from the experience convinced that he must leave the Church, but is persuaded by an old mentor, Bishop Likeman, to wait three months before doing anything, during which time he continues in his episcopal duties. Bishop Scrope keeps these developments from his wife, Lady Ella, and his four daughters until Lady Sunderbund arrives unannounced in Princhester, vowing to become his spiritual pupil. The strain of this new situation leads him to take Dr. Dale's drug a second time, and under its influence he has a second vision, this time of the terrestrial globe in a state of spiritual ferment to which the world's clergy is not ministering. Under the influence of this revelation he delivers a heretical confirmation address in the cathedral and resolves thereafter to leave the Church. Lady Sunderbund wishes to devote her riches to helping him found a new church, but in the process of developing plans for it Scrope realizes, in a third vision that this time is not mediated by any drug, that in the new religion he must serve "there must be no idea of any pulpit, of any sustained mission." In a final epiphany, he realizes that his refusal to "trust his family to God" has been holding him back, and that "this distrust has been the flaw in the faith of all religious systems hitherto." Five years after it began, Scrope's spiritual crisis is resolved." -- Wikipedia, accessed 6/20/2014"
"Science fiction master H.G. Wells was never one to shy away from complex or controversial topics, and in this classic novel, he takes on Christianity. Though The Soul of a Bishop takes place on Earth and is wholly free of invading alien hordes or other fantastical creatures, it does deal with supernatural and mystical topics, delving into the how and why of religious belief."@en
"In Wells's thinly veiled autobiographical novel (1922), English gentleman Sir Richard Hardy tries to sort out his marital problemsby touring the countryside with Dr. Martineau, his psychiatrist. The story has also been called a love letter to birth-control activist Margaret Sanger, with whom Wells had a passionate affair."
"Scrope, Lord Bishop of Princhester, is a pillar of the Established Church till a vision converts him to the original form of Christianity, and forces him to turn his back on organized religion. This novel dramatizes many of the religious ideas featured in Wells's nonfiction work God the Invisible King ."

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"The soul of a bishop"@en
"The soul of a bishop"
"El Alma de un obispo : novela que trata muy poco de amor, escrita sobre la conciencia, la religión y las inquietudes serias de la vida"
"The soul of a bishop [and] The secret places of the heart"
"L'anima di un Vescovo : un romanzo"@it
"The soul of a bishop. : the secret places of the heart. By H.G. Wells"
"A püspök lelke : regény nagyon kevés szerelemmel, a lelkiismeretröl"
"The secret places of the heart"
"The secret places of the heart"@en
"The Soul of a Bishop"@en
"El alma de un obispo novela que trata muy poco de amor : escrita sobre la conciencia, la religión y las inquietudes serias de la vida"
"El alma de un obispo : : novela que trata muy poco de amor. Escrita sobre la conciencia , la religión y las inquietudes serias de la vida"
"The Soul of a bishop"
"The soul of a bishop ; The secret places of the heart"
"The soul of a bishop ; The secret places of the heart"@en
"En biskops själ : en roman (med en liten smula kärlek i) om samvete och religion och livets verkliga bekymmer"
"En biskops själ : en roman (med en liten smula kärlek i) om samvete och religion och livets verkliga bekymmer"@sv
"El alma de un obispo"@es
"The soul of a Bishop"@en
"L'anima di un vescovo : un romanzo (con appena un po' di amore) che tratta di coscienza e religione e delle pene reali della vita"
"L'anima di un vescovo : un romanzo (con appena un po' di amore) che tratta di coscienza e religione e delle pene reali della vita"@it
"En biskops sj al en roman (med en liten smula k arlek i) om samvete och religion och livets verkliga bekymmer"
"Soul of a bishop"
"Soul of a bishop"@en
"Soul of a Bishop"@en
"Soul of a Bishop"
"L'anima di un vescovo un romanzo (con appena un po' di amore) che tratta di coscienza e religione e delle pene reali della vita"
"El alma de un obispo : novela que trata muy poco de amor : escrita sobre la conciencia, la religión y las inquietudes serias de la vida"

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