
Heretics
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In this galloping collection of twenty pointed essays, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) nimbly punctures the philosophical pretensions of modern non-Christian thinkers and artists- heretics, as he calls them. Chesterton good-naturedly takes on contemporaries Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, James McNeill Whistler, and even his good friend George Bernard Shaw, exposing the muddled logic of their popular ideas with his characteristic wisdom and razor-sharp wit. He also begins to lay the groundwork for Orthodoxy, his subsequent account of a rational and coherent Christian faith.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of C. S. Lewis' primary mentors in apologetics, and an influence even in his conversion. Novelist, poet, essayist, and journalist, Chesterton was perhaps best known for his Father Brown detective stories. He produced more than 100 volumes in his lifetime, including biographies of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas Aquinas. His Everlasting Man, which set out a Christian outline of history, was one of the factors that wore down Lewis' resistance to Christianity. Chesterton was one of the first defenders of orthodoxy to use humor as a weapon. Perhaps more important was his use of reason to defend faith.
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- Intro
- Copyright
- Preface
- Reader's Note
- Dedication
- 1. Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
- 2. On the Negative Spirit
- 3. On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
- 4. Mr. Bernard Shaw
- 5. Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants
- 6. Christmas and the Aesthetes
- 7. Omar and the Sacred Vine
- 8. The Mildness of the Yellow Press
- 9. The Moods of Mr. George Moore
- 10. On Sandals and Simplicity
- 11. Science and the Savages
- 12. Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
- 13. Celts and Celtophiles
- 14. On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
- 15. On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set
- 16. On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity
- 17. On the Wit of Whistler
- 18. The Fallacy of the Young Nation
- 19. Slum Novelists and the Slums
- 20. Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
- Biographical Appendix
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