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The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I - Orthodoxy, What's Wrong with the World, and Heretics: Non-Fiction
Hardcover
PhilosophyReligion General Christian Living
ISBN13: 9781604591583
Publisher: Sublime Books
Published: Jan 2 2008
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.52
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three of G. K. Chesterton's most influential works of nonfiction bring together his defense of Christian belief, his critique of modern society, and his challenge to the fashionable ideas of his age. In Orthodoxy, Chesterton offers a personal account of the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him from youthful doubt and pessimism toward Christianity. With wit, paradox, and exuberant imagination, he argues that orthodox belief is not narrow or timid but adventurous, balanced, and deeply responsive to the mystery of existence. He challenges materialism, determinism, and relativism while defending reason, freedom, gratitude, tradition, and the ordinary world as things worthy of wonder.
In What's Wrong with the World, Chesterton turns his attention to politics, education, capitalism, socialism, feminism, family life, property, and the growing power of institutions. He argues that reformers too often attempt to improve society without first deciding what a healthy society should be. At the heart of the book is his defense of the home, the family, and wider ownership of property as protections against impersonal political and economic systems. His conclusions are frequently controversial, but his larger argument remains forceful: progress is meaningless unless we know what human life ought to become.
In Heretics, Chesterton confronts the writers, philosophers, and social theories that shaped the early twentieth century. He takes aim at pessimism, materialism, Social Darwinism, relativism, and the cult of progress while insisting that every opinion rests upon a deeper philosophy of life. Combative, comic, and intellectually restless, the essays laid the groundwork for Orthodoxy and established Chesterton as one of the most distinctive religious and cultural critics of his generation. Collected in one substantial volume, these three books reveal the full range of his thought on faith, society, politics, morality, and the recovery of wonder.
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