The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Nebula Award: Best Novel nominee (1983).

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes VALIS and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress – and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ.