Perfect in Weakness

“Heber-Percy’s illuminating scholarship, boundary-dissolving methodology, and academic poetics deliver a fascinating journey into the soul of Tarkovsky’s Stalker. Perfect in Weakness not only challenges and enriches our understanding of this mesmerizing cinematic achievement, it provides a unique appreciation of the nature of conversion and the life religious. For Heber-Percy the film is a heartfelt hymn whose meaning is in the conversation it provokes. This book is a provocative, fecund, and moving contribution to that conversation, and to that meaning.”


—Britt Harrison, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London





“The unexamined life is not worth living, and neither is the disconnected one. Colin Heber-Percy’s integration of film, ancient wisdom, and Christian theology makes a revealing and profoundly attractive account of contemporary spirituality. This is a book for explorers of what it is to be honest, engaged, and fully human.”


—Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury





“Deeply impressive, Heber-Percy's writing is deeply serious, informed with passion, but always he pursues his quest with a lightness of touch and playfulness. Here is an original thinker offering rigor and insight.”


—Madeleine Bunting, writer and former associate editor of The Guardian