William Oddie

Gebundenes Buch

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy

The Making of GKC, 1874-1908

Beschreibung

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy is an exploration of G.K. Chesterton's imaginative and spiritual development, from his early childhood in the 1870s to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the twentieth century. William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings.

Autor

William Oddie is a former editor of The Catholic Herald, and author of a number of books, including Dickens and Carlyle and The Roman Option. After a late conversion from lifelong atheism, he was ordained an Anglican clergyman in 1977 at the age of 38. He subsequently held roles as chaplain to postgraduate students at Oxford University, as priest-librarian of Pusey House, as fellow of St Cross College, Oxford and as a parish priest. In 1987 he became a full-time journalist, writing regularly for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, and The Daily Mail. In 1991 he was received into the Catholic Church.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 781g
• ISBN-13: 9780199551651
• ISBN-10: 0199551650
• Artikelnr.: 26100721