Finished G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy today. Loved it. Well worth the time. Would like to read The Everlasting Man sometime, too – C.S. Lewis called it the best popular apologetic for Christianity he knew – but...
Read moreJust finished chapter 8 of Orthodoxy, “The Romance of Orthodoxy,” which is Chesterton’s critique of several of the prevailing tenets of modernism. Specifically, he argues that it is not liberal but rather illiberal to disbelieve...
Read moreIn 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 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 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 moreThis is a real gem from G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, which I am listening to on my ipod these days and really enjoying. The fact that doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants...
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