by G.K. Chesterton
It was quite ironic that as I was reading this book I noticed that a friend of mine was regularly updating his Facebook status with quotes from G.K. Chesterton. Mind you, they weren't any old quotes, they were no doubt quotes that particularly struck him. It is a real shame that he isn't on Goodread...
It's difficult for me to review The Everlasting Man adequately, largely for two reasons.One is that G.K. Chesterton, being both a philosopher and a man of letters, here speaks in a style both rambling and strongly reminiscent of a lecture (or series of lectures). It's not patronizing, but the most i...
The Incarnation (the conception and birth of Christ) is the focal point, not just of the Christian creed, but of all of history. This single event, combined with the Passion and Resurrection, was (literally) earth-shattering. It made sense of history and rescued civilization from a dark future of pa...
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