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Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
4.0
I need this.
One of the most chaotic books I’ve ever read. Chesterton is at times simple and straight forward and at other complex and esoteric. Sometimes he’s funny (the pessimist mouse is hilarious) and at others extremely cruel (he not a big fan of Protestants :/ ). Chesterton is such a dichotomous writer that leads into his understanding of Christianity also being a dichotomous belief. We ask for others to fight and others to lay down their arms. We praise the martyrs and despise the suicide. We love to love and hate to hate. Each for an important reason.
Chesterton journeys into so many ideas almost seamlessly. While some ideas are throughly fleshed out, some don’t stand up to much scrutiny. But his simple matter of factly writer bare so much wisdom that can be dug deeply into.
He mainly discusses the Church, rather than directly Christ, and its doctrine which is may be a better way to go about apologetics but I felt it lost a bit of the faith factor to Christian life. But what else can you ask of a Catholic ( no offense).
I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone below college and even then I’d wait till their Junior or Senior year if they’re anything like me.
Great book
One of the most chaotic books I’ve ever read. Chesterton is at times simple and straight forward and at other complex and esoteric. Sometimes he’s funny (the pessimist mouse is hilarious) and at others extremely cruel (he not a big fan of Protestants :/ ). Chesterton is such a dichotomous writer that leads into his understanding of Christianity also being a dichotomous belief. We ask for others to fight and others to lay down their arms. We praise the martyrs and despise the suicide. We love to love and hate to hate. Each for an important reason.
Chesterton journeys into so many ideas almost seamlessly. While some ideas are throughly fleshed out, some don’t stand up to much scrutiny. But his simple matter of factly writer bare so much wisdom that can be dug deeply into.
He mainly discusses the Church, rather than directly Christ, and its doctrine which is may be a better way to go about apologetics but I felt it lost a bit of the faith factor to Christian life. But what else can you ask of a Catholic ( no offense).
I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone below college and even then I’d wait till their Junior or Senior year if they’re anything like me.
Great book