Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy
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Orthodoxy

Information on Orthodoxy from the publisher:

Chesterton's classic explanation of the essentials of the Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief. Written in 1908, it displays all the intellectual clarity and literary skill of one of this century's greatest and most thoughtful authors. 'He is as much a political writer as George Orwell. Politics, in the narrow, as well as the widest, sense, informs and inspires his writing, which is why he remained all his life a journalist, to the despair of those who recognized the enormous scale of his gifts. But that is what Chesterton wanted to be, a 'jolly journalist'...because he thought his message important, and from Fleet Street it could reach the people who needed it most, and who perhaps had the best chance of understanding it.'—P.J. Kavanagh

Description of G. K. Chesterton, author of Orthodoxy:

G.K. Chesterton was a journalist, playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, essayist, literary commentator, editor, orator, artist, and theologian. Orthodoxy is his greatest theological work, which amounts to an apology for the Christian faith heretofore unequalled, excepting perhaps by C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. A serious attack, in 1903, against Christianity by Robert Blatchford, well-known newspaper editor, impelled Chesterton to seize the gauntlet of refutation. His reply was immensely successful and was the early formation of his convincing credo which is so brilliantly and cogently argued in Orthodoxy, a masterwork published just five years later. Five cassettes, read by Fred Williams, unabridged. 7 1/2 hours.