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The Blatchford Controversies and Other Essays on Religion
A refreshing new collection of Chesterton's writings on religion, Christianity, miracles, rationalism, and the Catholic Church. The brilliant essays in this volume preceded and inspired the later apologetic works of C.S. Lewis, and are as relevant (and joyfully devastating) to the "new" atheism of Hitchens and Dawkins, as they were to the materialistic rationalism of a century ago. Proofread and elegantly formatted for the Kindle, this book is a notable improvement on the various error-riddled public domain texts previously available on Amazon.
266 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 21, 2012
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G.K. Chesterton
4,644 books5,754 followersGilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.
Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.
He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.
Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.
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November 8, 2017
Another worth-while read from my favorite author. G.K. Chesterton continues to get five star ratings from me because the things he wrote are so true; another great work from the prophet of common sense.
February 13, 2016
Quickly paced, the arguments within the collection of essays are sound and reasonable. Great response to Mr. Richard Blatchford.
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