Orthodoxy

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

John Lane Company, 1909 - Apologetics - 299 pages

Chesterton's description of his intellectual and philosophical journey to Christianity.

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User Review  - MrsLee - LibraryThing

The first time I listened to this, it was with a computer generated voice reading it. Not very satisfactory, but enough good to make me buy the paper version. Then I saw that there was an Audible ...

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User Review  - bness2 - LibraryThing

Chesterton at his philosophical best. He presents his personal arguments for the existence of God and skewers all the puffed up, empty-headed modern philosophers and worthless aristocrats and oligarchs. His wit is as fresh and sharp as Mark Twain's.

Contents

• I: 13
• II: 22
• III: 52
• IV: 81
• V: 119
• VI: 148
• VII: 188
• VIII: 230
• IX: 261

About the author

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England, in 1874. He began his education at St Paul's School, and later went on to study art at the Slade School, and literature at University College in London. Chesterton wrote a great deal of poetry, as well as works of social and literary criticism. Among his most notable books are The Man Who Was Thursday, a metaphysical thriller, and The Everlasting Man, a history of humankind's spiritual progress. After Chesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922, he wrote mainly on religious topics. Chesterton is most known for creating the famous priest-detective character Father Brown, who first appeared in "The Innocence of Father Brown." Chesterton died in 1936 at the age of 62.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Orthodoxy; Sun dial library
• Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• Publisher: John Lane Company, 1909
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Nov 6, 2008
• ISBN: 1500719145, 9781500719142
• Length: 299 pages