G. K. Chesterton

The Everlasting Man

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Produktbeschreibung

Complete edition of The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton successfully challenges the view that man is just another evolutionary animal, and that Jesus Christ was only human. C. S. Lewis said it was the best popular defense of the full Christian position. Find out why in this complete reproduction of the 1925 British Edition. Deep common sense on every page, it includes great thoughts such as these: "The life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God." "Atheists may continue to war with Christianity, but it will be as they war with nature; as they war with the landscape, as they war with the skies." Witty, deep, and positively entertaining, no student of thought should be without this historic book. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFATORY NOTE 3 INTRODUCTION: THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK 3 PART I: ON THE CREATURE CALLED MAN 8 CHAPTER 1 THE MAN IN THE CAVE 8 CHAPTER 2 PROFESSORS AND PREHISTORIC MEN 15 CHAPTER 3 THE ANTIQUITY OF CIVILISATION 22 CHAPTER 4 GOD AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION 33 CHAPTER 5 MAN AND MYTHOLOGIES 41 CHAPTER 6 THE DEMONS AND THE PHILOSOPHERS 48 CHAPTER 7 THE WAR OF THE GODS AND DEMONS 57 CHAPTER 8 THE END OF THE WORLD 64 PART II: ON THE MAN CALLED CHRIST 70 CHAPTER 1 THE GOD IN THE CAVE 70 CHAPTER 2 THE RIDDLES OF THE GOSPEL 77 CHAPTER 3 THE STRANGEST STORY IN THE WORD 83 CHAPTER 4 THE WITNESS OF THE HERETICS 89 CHAPTER 5 THE ESCAPE FROM PAGANISM 97 CHAPTER 6 THE FIVE DEATHS OF THE FAITH 105 CONCLUSION: THE SUMMARY OF THIS BOOK 110 APPENDIX I: ON PREHISTORIC MAN 114 APPENDIX II: ON AUTHORITY AND ACCURACY 115

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chump Change
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781640322479
• ISBN-10: 1640322477
• Artikelnr.: 60043929

Autorenporträt

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox".Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown,[5] and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.[4][6] Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, his "friendly enemy", said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius."[4] Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin. Chesterton was born in Campden Hill in Kensington, London, the son of Marie Louise, née Grosjean, and Edward Chesterton.[8][9] He was baptised at the age of one month into the Church of England,[10] though his family themselves were irregularly practising Unitarians.[11]According to his autobiography, as a young man Chesterton became fascinated with the occultand, along with his brother Cecil, experimented with Ouija boards. Chesterton was educated at St Paul's School, then attended the Slade School of Art to become an illustrator. The Slade is a department of University College London, where Chesterton also took classes in literature, but did not complete a degree in either subject. In September 1895 Chesterton began working for the London publisher Redway, where he remained for just over a year.[14] In October 1896 he moved to the publishing house T. Fisher Unwin,[14] where he remained until 1902. During this period he also undertook his first journalistic work, as a freelance art and literary critic. In 1902 the Daily News gave him a weekly opinion column, followed in 1905 by a weekly column in The Illustrated London News, for which he continued to write for the next thirty years.