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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 230
EAN: 9781449512569
ISBN: 1449512569
Label: CreateSpace
Manufacturer: CreateSpace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 164
Publication Date: September 17, 2009
Publisher: CreateSpace
Studio: CreateSpace
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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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G. K. Chesterton's memoir of faith was named "one of the 10 indispensable spiritual classics of the past 1500 years." This beautiful new edition of ORTHODOXY celebrates the 100th anniversary of its publication. [See also the companion volume, a centennial edition of THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY.]
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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 ... Read More
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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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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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I actually have yet to read this book, but I bought a copy for my husband and one for his brother as well this Christmas. My husband (a recent graduate from a Christian college, now doing grad studies) couldn't put it down and kept reading quotes to me from the book. Within a week my brother-in-law (a Bible student in college) had read the book twice and said it was even better the second time through! Now they are both wanting to read more of Chesterton's work! I will have to read it soon!
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I had to discover G. K. Chesterton all by myself, when I was a teenager --- in the school library. He had written so many books, on so many interesting topics! I borrowed four or five and was enthralled by his humor, his clear insight, and his brilliant writing style.
Take this book "Orthodoxy." Could there be a more boring title? Yet, if you dare to open to the first page, you're off on a wild, non-stop ride where Chesterton makes a number of points that seem to me beyond dispute.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
EAN: 9781449512569
ISBN: 1449512569
Label: CreateSpace
Manufacturer: CreateSpace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 164
Publication Date: September 17, 2009
Publisher: CreateSpace
Studio: CreateSpace