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Orthodoxy is a 1908 book by G. K. Chesterton which he described as a "spiritual autobiography". It has become a classic of Christian apologetics. [1]Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics, which was a collection of essays aimed at refuting prevalent secular views of his time and defending the Christian orthodoxy. [2]
Chesterton was an early member of the Fabian Society but resigned at the time of the Boer War. [68] He is often identified as a traditionalist conservative [69] [70] due to his staunch support of tradition, expressed in Orthodoxy and other works with Burkean quotes such as the following:
Heretics is a collection of 20 essays by English writer G. K. Chesterton published by John Lane in 1905. [1] In it, Chesterton quotes at length and argues extensively against atheist Joseph McCabe and delivers diatribes about his close personal friend and intellectual rival George Bernard Shaw, as well as about Friedrich Nietzsche, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and an array of other major ...
The Foundations of Belief, 1879, chap. 13) and G.K. Chesterton. In Chesterton's 1908 book Orthodoxy, in a chapter titled "The Suicide of Thought", he writes of the "great and possible peril . . . that the human intellect is free to destroy itself....It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. It is an act of faith to ...
Pages in category "Books by G. K. Chesterton" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Orthodoxy (book) P. The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond;
The Chesterton Review is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University. It was established in 1974 to promote an interest in all aspects of G. K. Chesterton's life, work, art, and ideas, including his Christian apologetics. The journal includes essays and articles written by ...
Cover of The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1900), Greybeards at Play (poetry), London: R. Brimley Johnson. ——— (1900), The Wild Knight and Other Poems (poetry).
The Everlasting Man is a Christian apologetics book written by G. K. Chesterton, published in 1925.It is, to some extent, a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells' The Outline of History, disputing Wells' portrayals of human life and civilisation as a seamless development from animal life and of Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure.