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| Original Title: | Orthodoxy |
| ISBN: | 160096527X (ISBN13: 9781600965272) |
| Edition Language: | English |
G.K. Chesterton
Paperback | Pages: 168 pages Rating: 4.18 | 29583 Users | 1647 Reviews
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This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. The book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle and its answer. It deals first with all the writer's own solitary and sincere speculations and then with the startling style in which they were all suddenly satisfied by the Christian Theology. The writer regards it as amounting to a convincing creed. But if it is not that it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence.
Details Appertaining To Books Orthodoxy
| Title | : | Orthodoxy |
| Author | : | G.K. Chesterton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 168 pages |
| Published | : | July 30th 2008 by Waking Lion Press (first published 1908) |
| Categories | : | Religion. Theology. Christian. Nonfiction. Christianity. Philosophy. Classics |
Rating Appertaining To Books Orthodoxy
Ratings: 4.18 From 29583 Users | 1647 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books Orthodoxy
I have to think of Chesterton as happy nitroglycerin. This book sends your head up into the clouds while driving your feet deep into the earth. It spins you dizzier than you've ever been, yet makes you walk straighter than you've ever walked. Read this first in 2007, again in 2011.This was my umpteenth time reading Orthodoxy. For years I had the audio version on my iPod Shuffle. Hilariously it played the chapters out of order, but it didn't really matter. I listened to them over and over again. it was fun to go back and read it in print again. And as other of my friends have said, even though I am one of the dreadful Calvinists, I still love Chesterton and his masterful way with words. Since I read it on my Kindle I will share my highlights that way. I am looking forward
"Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true." Certainly nothing is irrelevant to discussing Christianity when G.K. Chesterton writes a classic apologetics work. Orthodoxy is and is not a typical apologetics work. It defends the orthodox Christian world-view and it moreover discusses and reveals what Chesterton's own views and values were. As such Chesterton does not back away from discussing
I bought it because I heard this quote recently"A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning,
imagine walking into a dangerous and violent bar with the biggest, baddest ufc champion ever to grace the octagon. or walking into a house party with the hottest date ever. or entering a church basketball tournament with an nba caliber ringer on your team. i'm guessing that's what it would have felt like to walk with gk chesterton into a room full of skeptics and post-modern christian haters. okay, that whole paragraph did not work. but this book deserves credit for being mostly a pre-modern
Ive read the Word on Fire beautiful grey hardcover edition. It was the first time I read this book, and it is without a doubt one of the very best books Ive ever read. One of the top 5. And Ive read many. The number of very profound psychological insights in this book is astounding. The overarching one is the concept of coexisting opposites. While being a characteristic trait of Christianity, this is also a very typical trait of human existence: our lives are a constant dance between
I read this at a time in my life when I was not receptive to it, too full of modern theologians to get Chesterton's meanings. It is still on my shelf, and will get another reading in time, in this world of the next.
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