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Orthodoxy

by: G. K. Chesterton

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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Ignatius Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 239
EAN: 9780898705522
ISBN: 0898705525
Label: Ignatius Press
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
MPN: 9780898705522
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: 1995-07
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Studio: Ignatius Press

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A pagan at only 12 and totally agnostic by 16, Gilbert Keith Chesterton had the remarkable experience of developing a personal, positive philosophy that turned out to be orthodox Christianity. Orthodoxy, his account of it all, has not lost its force as a timeless argument for the simple plausibility of traditional Christianity. C.S. Lewis and many other emerging Christian thinkers have found this book a pivotal step in their adoption of a credible Christian faith. Recommended in Kolbe Academy Grade 12 Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton Grade: 9 and up Pages: 168 pages, Paperback Publisher: Ignatius ISBN: 0-89870-552-5

Amazon.com 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

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- excellent
Chesterton's slant on an idea is interesting since he said in his time people were not believing in sin so let's call it something else and look at it from that angle. I'm enchanted with his look at the history of the time even through it was very much written for the time and place, for instance it took me a few paragraphs to determine the meaning of "Hanwell". Does well for the mystery and delving deeper. Haven't completed the book as yet so I'll have to leave it at that.

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- C. S. Lewis source book
G. K. Chesterton is quoted by many including C. S. Lewis and Ravi Zacharias. This is the book that is the source of many of the quotes. It provides the thinking of G.K. Chesterton as he transitioned from being an agnostic (or even atheist)to embracing christian orthodoxy. He got to that point from reading the atheist writers and their objections to christianity. He uses logic to prove that logic alone cannot solve many theological issues! If you were placed in an asylum for being crazy, how could you prove that you were sane?

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- Pure Brilliance
This book is pure brilliance. I only recently came across Chesterton as something more than a name I had heard. This is the first book by him that I have read, and I have to express awe and great pleasure with it. Chesterton has this wonderfully peculiar way of presenting a successive argument (in a light, almost flippant manner) that gains strength and cogency as it unfolds. Peppered within his arguments are statements that may often seem zany and funny at first, but that with more thought and concentration grow strikingly and reveal themselves to be potent catalysts for challenging long-held assumptions. Chesterton in this book puts old truths in new perspective. He succeeds admirably, and somewhat paradoxically, at turning conventional wisdom on its head and yet strengthening the very idea of convention in the process. We're living today in an age of waning traditional influences kind of like the one in which this book was written. But I invite skeptics of tradition and religion to give this book a try. They might find that Oliver Wendell Holmes's statement - about a mind never regaining its original dimensions once stretched by a new idea - applies to much of this book in ways they might not expect...or find comfortable.

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- Great read - great author
Mr. Chesterton does it again. Great read with many insights and several surprises. I highly recommend for any Christian who seeks a higher understanding and unique insights.

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- A must read for anyone trying to understand the world today!
One of the most important books written, brilliant in scope and understanding of faith.

There are many better reviews here than I can write, I just wanted to add my 5 stars, if I could give it 10 I world!

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