In chapter 5, “The Paradoxes of Christianity,” Chesterton sets forth Christianity as the best explanation of the strangeness of the world: the paradoxical way in which the world is almost rational and orderly – and yet...
Read moreIts hard to trust God when life doesn’t make sense. It certainly must have been for Abraham. One day God says to him, “take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go...
Read moreIn the preface of Orthodoxy, Chesterton sets forth the whole book as an attempt to explain the strange ways in which the world is both our home, and not our home. How can the world...
Read moreThis is from the end of chapter 4, “The Ethics of Elf-land,” where he is describing his journey toward Christianity: I had always vaguely felt facts to be miracles in the sense that they are...
Read moreI’ve been writing an article this spring and summer in which I question John Stott’s emphasis on the cross over the resurrection on pp. 232-234 of The Cross of Christ (IVP, 2006). While reading Athanasius’...
Read moreI’ve written before on Calvin’s extra – his view that during the incarnation God the Son still filled the heavens and upheld all things as Infinite God. Before Calvin, this view was asserted by Athanasius...
Read moreThus far into G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, I can only describe it by comparing it to C.S. Lewis’ writings. It has the same winsome persuasion of argument, the same spiritual insight, the same economy of words...
Read moreAs part of my study of pre-reformation theology, I am reading Athanasius’ On the Incarnation of the Word, which is a great little primer on the Christian faith. (If you get the Popular Patristics edition,...
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