God, the Invisible King

Written in the shadow of the Great War, this is H.G. Wells's passionate attempt to articulate a faith entirely his own. Wells, the visionary who imagined time machines and martian invasions, here turns his restless intelligence toward questions science alone could not answer: What does it mean to believe? Is it possible to be modern and spiritual? His God is not the deity of churches or scriptures but something more intimate and urgent, a living presence Wells felt compelled to name. Neither atheist nor Christian, neither Buddhist nor any established tradition, this "renascent religion" emerges from one of the twentieth century's most searching minds trying to find meaning in an age of unprecedented violence and doubt. The book stands as a remarkable document of early twentieth-century spiritual crisis, revealing that even the most scientifically-minded thinkers could not escape the human need for the sacred.