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Title: The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 3 : The Catholic Church; Where All Roads Lead; The Well and the Shallow and others (Paperback) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, George Marlin ISBN: 0-89870-311-5 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: November, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply Magnificent
Comment: This volume contains essays revolving around GK's conversion to Catholicism. As always, GK is illuminating and entertaining--several parts of these essays had me laughing out loud. GK has a marvelous talent for utterly dismantling an argument, an attitude, or a belief, while remaining so good natured about it that even his intellectual enemies must have liked him at least a little. Here, he mainly takes on Protestantism, modernism, secularism, Liberalism, and several other "isms" of the day that challenged the Catholic Church--some of which at one time or another had even attracted GK himself. In the end, he makes as convincing an argument for Catholicism that anyone could make. In the process, he throws much light on many political and social trends that were just gearing up in the 1920's, like birth control, divorce, moral relativism and secular humanism. GK offers grave predictions for these insufficient ideas, many of which sadly have come true beyond probably even his imagination.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chesterton on Catholicism...
Comment: Many people don't realize that Chesterton wrote his most famous work, _Orthodoxy_ *long* before he had officially converted to Catholicism. _Orthodoxy_ was published in 1908, and Chesterton was received into the Catholic Church in 1922.
If _Orthodoxy_ was written as a defense of Christian sanity against the heresies of the modern world that were driving men mad, the works contain in this volume are Chesterton's defense of the Catholic Church as the bastion of that Christian sanity.
This volume would be worth the purchase just for the short essay, "What Do They Think?" -- or even for the reminder that "Christianity is not a religion; it is a Church." I *highly* recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Answers the question of why Chesterton became Catholic
Comment: That answer is summed up by Gilbert's own words, "To get rid of my sins." Indeed, he writes..."For there is no other religious system that does really profess to get rid of people's sins. It is confirmed by the logic, which to many seems startling, by which the Church deduces that sin confessed and adquately repented is actually abolished; and that the sinner does really begin again as if he had never sinned."
And this beauty is found only on page 9. 540 delightful pages follow.
Ignatius Press has done a wonderful deed in reprinting the collected works of Chesterton. This is Volume III, and it deals exclusively with Chesterton's writings on Christ and His Church.
Like all of Chesterton's work it is a delight to read. In it he tries to answer an unanswerable question - that of his conversion.
In the end, Chesterton is left to say, "I might treat the matter personally and describe my own conversion; but I happen to have a strong feeling that this method makes the business look much smaller than it really is.... I would say chiefly of the Catholic Church that it is catholic. I would rather try to suggest that it is not only larger than me, but larger than anything in the world; that it is indeed larger than the world."
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Title: Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Outline of Sanity, the End of the Armistice the Appetite of Tyranny, Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays (Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Vol 5) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, George Marlin ISBN: 0898701708 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: December, 1987 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, Ignatius Pr ISBN: 0898705525 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Penguin Complete Father Brown by Gilbert Keith Chesterton ISBN: 014009766X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1987 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: The Club of Queer Trades: The Man Who Was Thursday: The Ball and the Cross by G. K. Chesterton, George Marlin, Denis J. Conlon ISBN: 0898703654 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Heretics by G. K. Chesterton ISBN: 1842329898 Publisher: House of Stratus Inc. Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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