Schall on Chesterton : timely essays on timeless paradoxes / James V. Schall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schall, James V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936--Criticism and interpretation.

Chesterton, G. K.

Chesterton, G. K--Criticism and interpretation.

Chesterton, G. K - Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book of essays, Father James V. Schall, a prolific author himself and a prominent Catholic writer, brings readers to Chesterton through a witty series of original reflections prompted by something Chesterton wrote--timely essays on timeless issues.

Contents:

""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction: G. K. Chesterton, Journalist ""; ""The Natural Home of the Human Spirit ""; ""On the Nate of ""Yes"" in the State of Maine ""; ""The Philosopher with Two Thoughts ""; ""Equal with the Souls of Hildebrand and Shakespeare ""; ""The Traditional Scene of the Nativity ""; ""On the Qualified and Experienced ""; ""On Staring at the Picture of ""Tuesday"" ""; ""The Real End and Final Holiday of Human Souls ""; ""A Definite, Defiant, and Quite Unmistakable Thing ""; ""On Looking Down at the Stars ""

""The Most Inexhaustible of Human Books """"On God's Making both Hell and Scotland ""; ""The Ten Thousand Reasons ""; ""Against Pride ""; ""The Christian Ideal ""; ""On the Alternatives to Right and Wrong ""; ""The Spirit of Chirstmas ""; ""Second Thoughts on Detective Stories ""; ""On the Inability to Blaspheme ""; """"I Say As Do All Christian Men..."" ""; """"The Way the World Is Going"" ""; ""On the Winning of World Wars I and II ""; ""Christmas and the Most Dangerous Toy ""; ""Babies ""; ""On the Dullness of Chaos ""; ""The Invisible Man ""; ""Wilde and Wilder ""; ""The Horror ""

""Virtue and Duty """"Humanism ""; ""On Not Wrecking Divine or Secular Things ""; ""Belloc on Chesterton ""; ""The Only Virtue ""; ""The Coming of Christ ""; """"The Divine Vulgarity of the Christian Religion"" ""; ""On Becoming Inhuman out of Sheer Humanitarianism ""; """"Woman and the Philosophers"" ""; ""On the Discovery of Things Whose Existence Is Impossible to Deny ""; ""The Campaign against the Ten Commandments ""; """"An Awful Instance of the Instability of Human Greatness"" ""; ""The Dogmas Are Not Dull ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Epilogue: On the Enemies of the Man Who Had No Enemies ""

""Notes """"Bibliography ""; ""Index ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-258) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-1823-3

OCLC:

820720053