Orthodoxy - Softcover

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8562022268 ISBN 13: 9788562022265

Publisher: IAP, 2008

Synopsis

English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, in Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton discusses the traditional orthodoxy. This book, with many allusions to Scripture, is considered today a classic of Christian apologetics.

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Review

If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross

From the Publisher

Chesterton's classic explanation of the essentials of the Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief. Written in 1908, it displays all the intellectual clarity and literary skill of one of this century's greatest and most thoughtful authors.

About this edition

• Publisher: IAP
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 8562022268
• ISBN 13: 9788562022265
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106