Description Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G.
The business of Progressives is to go on maki.
Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both Progressivism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives.
Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.
Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out." Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics.
Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.
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Chesterton chose the title, Orthodoxy, to focus instead on the plainness of the Apostles\' Creed, though he admitted the general sound of the title was "a thinnish sort of thing." Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KCSG (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936), better known as G.
He converted to Catholicism 14 years later.
The book was written when Chesterton was an Anglican.
He sees it as the answer to natural human needs, the "answer to a riddle" in his own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the boundaries of human experience.
Street\'s criticism of the earlier work, "that he was not going to bother about his theology until I had really stated mine." 1] In the book\'s preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." In it, Chesterton presents an original view of Christian religion.
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Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics, writing it expressly in response to G.
Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics.
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Description Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G
