Heretics and Orthodoxy: Two Volumes in One

Heretics and Orthodoxy: Two Volumes in One

by G. K. Chesterton
Heretics and Orthodoxy: Two Volumes in One

Heretics and Orthodoxy: Two Volumes in One

by G. K. Chesterton

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Overview

Heretics, a collection of 20 essays originally published in 1905, is one of Chesterton's most important books. It is a work that serves to point out the 'heresies' contained within the popular veins of thought surrounding him in society. The topics he touches upon range from cosmology to anthropology to soteriology and he argues against French nihilism, German humanism, English utilitarianism, the syncretism of "the vague modern", Social Darwinism, eugenics and the arrogance and misanthropy of the European intelligentsia.

Together with Orthodoxy, this book is regarded as the finest flagship of his corpus of moral theology; a binary system in the cosmos of western philosophy.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788119090457
Publisher: SANAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE LLP
Publication date: 04/04/2023
Pages: 358
Sales rank: 705,911
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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

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