Orthodoxy

Complete edition of Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton. Arranged upon a riddle and an answer, it tells how Chesterton himself went from pagan, to agnostic, to staunch Christian. Told in Chesterton’s own voice, the book is a thought provoking manuscript as impactful today as it was in 1908.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 CONTENTSPREFACE 31. INTRODUCTION IN DEFENCE OF EVERYTHING ELSE 32. THE MANIAC 53. THE SUICIDE OF THOUGHT 124. THE ETHICS OF ELFLAND 195. THE FLAG OF THE WORLD 286. THE PARADOXES OF CHRISTIANITY 347. THE ETERNAL REVOLUTION 448. THE ROMANCE OF ORTHODOXY 549. AUTHORITY AND THE ADVENTURER 61

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He is best known in mystery circles as the creator of the fictional priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Often referred to as "the prince of paradox," Chesterton frequently made his points by turning familiar sayings and proverbs inside out.Chesterton attended the Slade School of Art, a department of University College London, where he took classes in illustration and literature, though he did not complete a degree in either subject. In 1895, at the age of twenty-one, he began working for the London publisher George Redway. A year later he moved to another publisher, T. Fisher Unwin, where he undertook his first work in journalism, illustration, and literary criticism.In addition to writing fifty-three Father Brown stories, Chesterton authored articles and books of social criticism, philosophy, theology, economics, literary criticism, biography, and poetry.