Name: Chesterton Apologetics set - Heretics, Orthodoxy, and the Everlasting man
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Author: G. K. Chesterton
ISBN: 9781640322592

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Chesterton Apologetics set - Heretics, Orthodoxy, and the Everlasting man

Type

Physical Book

Author

G. K. Chesterton

Publisher

Chump Change

Year

1925

Language

English

Pages

258

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781640322592

Synopsis "Chesterton Apologetics set - Heretics, Orthodoxy, and the Everlasting man "

Complete set of three Chesterton Apologetics by G. K. Chesterton in one volume, including Heretics , Orthodoxy , and The Everlasting Man ... Leer másComplete set of three Chesterton Apologetics by G. K. Chesterton in one volume, including Heretics, Orthodoxy, and The Everlasting Man .Heretics - Chesterton discusses ideas by H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Kipling and others of his day in his argument for God.From the 1905 British edition, it includes great thoughts such as these:The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas.Orthodoxy - Arranged upon a riddle and an answer, it tells how Chesterton himself went from pagan, to agnostic, to staunch Christian. From the 1908 British Edition.The Everlasting Man - Chesterton successfully challenges the view that man is just another evolutionary animal, and that Jesus Christ was only human. C. S. Lewis said it was the best popular defense of the full Christian position.From the 1925 British Edition, it includes great thoughts such as these:The life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God.Atheists may continue to war with Christianity, but it will be as they war with nature; as they war with the landscape, as they war with the skies.Witty, deep, and positively entertaining, no student of thought should be without this historic book. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price.TABLE OF CONTENTSHERETICS 3ORTHODOXY 75THE EVERLASTING MAN 144

G. K. Chesterton

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G. K. Chesterton (London, May 29, 1874 – Beaconsfield, June 14, 1936) was a prolific British writer, author of essays, novels, poetry, biographies, and Christian apologetics. His work is characterized by irony, paradoxical wit, and a critical view of modernity. He was a prominent convert to Catholicism and an influential figure in religious and literary thought of his time. He is also known for his brilliant argumentative style and his defense of common sense.

Among his most recognized works are The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), Orthodoxy (1908), The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), Heretics (1905), The Ball and the Cross (1909), and The Resurrection of Rome (1930). He cultivated the essay, the novel of ideas, detective stories, and social and religious criticism.

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