Heretics and Orthodoxy: Two Volumes in One

by G. K. Chesterton

Overview

Two of G. K. Chesterton's most important and well-known works are contained in this volume: Heretics, and Orthodoxy. In Heretics, Chesterton addresses the intellectual movements of his time that he considered most prominent and destructive. Chesterton confronts relativism, individualism, neo-paganism, and other trends of the modern period, paying special attention to the artists and intellectual elite of his time. Orthodoxy, a classic that is part memoir, part apologetic. It exhibits Chesterton at his finest—a combination of literary wit, theological acumen, and pointed cultural critique. The two works complement each other perfectly, providing an accessible entry point to the battleground of truth and falsehood.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781577997894
Publisher:	Lexham Press
Publication date:	01/22/2017
Series:	Lexham Classics
Pages:	326
Sales rank:	161,503
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English author of various works, including Orthodoxy. He worked in publishing until 1902, when he began writing regularly. Chesterton's weekly columns appeared for decades in the Daily News and The Illustrated London News. He wrote more than 80 books, hundreds of poems, 200 short stories, and 4,000 essays. Chesterton's apologetic works have influenced generations of Christian belief and were notably influential in C.S. Lewis's conversion to Christianity.

Table of Contents

Heretics 1

Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy 3

On the Negative Spirit 11

On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small 19

Mr. Bernard Shaw 29

Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants 37

Christmas and the Æsthetes 49

Omar and the Sacred Vine 55

The Mildness of the Yellow Press 61

The Moods of Mr. George Moore 69

On Sandals and Simplicity 73

Science and the Savages 77

Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson 83

Celts and Celtophiles 93

On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family 97

On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set 107

On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity 117

On the Wit of Whistler 127

The Fallacy of the Young Nation 135

Slum Novelists and the Slums 147

Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy 157

Orthodoxy 169

Introduction in Defense of Everything Else 173

The Maniac 179

The Suicide of Thought 195

The Ethics of Elfland 211

The Flag of the World 231

The Paradoxes of Christianity 247

The Eternal Revolution 267

The Romance of Orthodoxy 289

Authority and the Adventurer 305