Just 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...
Read moreI enjoyed listening to this lecture on Till We Have Faces by Peter Kreeft (Roman Catholic philosopher, professor at Boston College, author of dozens of books, huge C.S. Lewis fan). Right off the bat he...
Read moreI’ve been listening to my favorite book this week, C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces. Its one of those books that sneaks up on you. You can get 2/3 through it – perhaps even 3/4...
Read more6 other truths about life that stood out to me from Great Expectations. 1) People sin against us for reasons that are very complicated, and often have nothing to do with us, but go back...
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