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![]() » 8 more No current Talk conversations about this book. Genius and, perhaps because of that, unskimmable. ( ![]() Chesterton is one of my favourite authors, but this pamphlet is pure rubbish. Simply listing all the fallacies, illogicalities, sophistries, straw-man attacks, even disingenuities and so on therein contained would take several pages. Of course, being GKC he sometimes makes sense even here, but those moments are few and far between. But the main problem is perhaps that he doesn't actually defend Christianity as something true, but as something convenient. Chesterton has an excellent writing style who is a pleasure to read but the arguments made are pretty shoddy. If you're keen on Jesus then you'll love it, if your just sceptically interested then you'll find it annoying. Logos Library 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 called "Heretics" because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is unavoidably affirmative and therefore unavoidably autobiographical. The writer has been driven back upon somewhat the same difficulty as that which beset Newman in writing his Apologia; he has been forced to be egotistical only in order to be sincere. While everything else may be different the motive in both cases is the same. 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 all 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. no reviews | add a review
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"In these pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than a series of deductions, to state the philosophy in which I have come to believe. I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me." // Chesterton's Orthodoxy makes Christian apologetics both compelling and delightful. Here is equilibrium of the mind's reason, the soul's imagination, and the belly's laughter! No library descriptions found. |
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