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Orthodoxy / by Gilbert K. Chesterton.
LIBRA - Special BR121 .C5 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Apologetics.
- Christianity--Essence, genius, nature.
- Christianity.
- Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
- Chesterton, G. K.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Cover subtitle: Romance of faith
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London ; Toronto : Image Books Doubleday, [1990]
- Summary:
- For G. K. Chesterton, orthodoxy carries us into the land of romance, right action, and revolution. In Orthodoxy, a classic in religious autobiography, he tells of his pilgrimage there by way of the doctrines of Christianity set out in the Apostles' Creed. Where science seeks to explain all things in terms of calculation and necessary law, Chesterton argues on behalf of the Christian doctrines of mystery and free will. Sanity, he says, belongs to the poet who accepts the romance and drama of these beliefs rather than to the logician who does not. This sanity is not static. It does not mean merely learning the right doctrines and then lapsing into a refined meditation on them. Chesterton dismisses such an inactive belief as "the greatest disaster of the nineteenth century." For him, right thinking is a waste without right action. For Chesterton the populist, political action often spells revolution. He discovers in the doctrines of original sin and the divinity of Christ ever-present seed beds of revolt in the face of the tyrannies of money and power.
- Contents:
- Introduction in defense of everything else
- The maniac
- The suicide of thought
- The ethics of elfland
- The flag of the world
- The paradoxes of Christianity
- The eternal revolution
- The romance of orthodoxy
- Authority and the adventurer.
- Notes:
- "An Image Book published by Doubleday a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc."
- "This Image Books edition published July 1990."
- Originally published: New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1908.
- ISBN:
- 0385015364 :
- 9780385015363
- OCLC:
- 22892243
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