1 posted on
05/29/2011 4:57:43 PM PDT by
Salvation
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To: Jo Nuvark
2 posted on
05/29/2011 4:58:33 PM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Salvation
Happy Birthday Mr. Chesterton!
To: Salvation
Very well then: what Chesterton book, essay, or short story ought I to read first?
And then which?
Better yet: What are the five (or ten) best writings of Chesterton, the ones most likely to lead one to seek out still more?
4 posted on
05/29/2011 5:04:27 PM PDT by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: Salvation
Funny you should post this. Until a couple days ago, G.K. Chesterton was only a name I vaguely recognized. Then I stumbled upon an article about him on a news site and it piqued my interest. Now I'm reading The Man Who Was Thursday. It's available free on Project Gutenburg.
To: Salvation
GK Chesterton:
“If there were no God,there would be no atheists”.
You got to love that.!
10 posted on
05/29/2011 5:11:43 PM PDT by
peteyd
(A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
To: Salvation
Chesterson bucked the prevailing literati and philosophical elites of British society during his time. He paid the price in history undeservedly.
13 posted on
05/29/2011 5:15:26 PM PDT by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: Salvation
Happy Birthday Mr. Chesterton!
I like the Frazier sitcom, and I have heard that Kelsey Grammar is conservative, and so it puzzles me he chose to name a fluffy effeminate character in his show Gilbert Chesterton.
14 posted on
05/29/2011 5:16:31 PM PDT by
HerrBlucher
("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
To: Salvation
The answer (to “why haven’t I heard of him?”) would have to be, “because you are woefully uneducated”. Life is not complete without reading Chesterton.
16 posted on
05/29/2011 5:18:48 PM PDT by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: Salvation
But rather than waiting to separate the goats from the sheep, let’s just come right out and say it: G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the twentieth century. Feh. He's in the top five or ten.
Others include:
Albert Einstein.
Dick Feynman.
Hilaire Belloc.
P. G. Wodehouse.
Dorothy L. Sayers.
C. S. Lewis.
J.R.R. Tolkien.
Up and comers for the new millenium:
Mark Steyn.
Iowahawk.
Cheers!
30 posted on
05/29/2011 6:30:44 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Salvation
G. K. Chesterton: "Who is this guy and why haven’t I heard of him?", You didn't have a classical education?
That is the usual answer.
41 posted on
05/29/2011 8:21:11 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Yesterday I meditated, today I seek balance. That was Zen, this is Tao.)
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46 posted on
05/29/2011 8:45:03 PM PDT by
Pelham
(Islam, mortal enemy of the free world)
To: Salvation
thanks for posting this. if even 1 more person learns about him, you’ve done a good thing.
...imagine a society, that pushed Chesterton in it’s universities, instead of Chomsky...
48 posted on
05/29/2011 8:50:33 PM PDT by
Elendur
(the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
To: Salvation
“One of the paradoxes of this age is that it is the age of Pacifism, but not the age of peace.” –G. K. Chesterton.
52 posted on
05/29/2011 9:54:32 PM PDT by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: Salvation
57 posted on
05/30/2011 7:01:37 AM PDT by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
To: Salvation
I got turned on to Chesterton when I read a simple quote from him somewhere. It went something like, “Complete tolerance is nothing more than the absence of all conviction”. Such plain but socially abhorred common sense suggested to me that I needed to read more of this man.
To: Salvation
One additional note here. The two-page biography of Charles Dickens in the famed 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica was written by GKC.
64 posted on
05/30/2011 7:47:24 AM PDT by
Mach9
To: Salvation
Chesterton argued eloquently against all the trends that eventually took over the twentieth century: materialism, scientific determinism, moral relativism, and spineless agnosticism. He also argued against both socialism and capitalism and showed why they have both been the enemies of freedom and justice in modern society. And what did he argue for? What was it he defended? He defended "the common man" and common sense. He defended the poor. He defended the family. He defended beauty. And he defended Christianity and the Catholic Faith.
So why should we wonder why the 20's century "educators" ensured we would not hear of this guy?
71 posted on
05/30/2011 9:01:18 AM PDT by
annalex
(http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
To: theKid51
82 posted on
05/30/2011 5:24:09 PM PDT by
bmwcyle
(It is Satan's fault)
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88 posted on
05/31/2011 5:57:26 AM PDT by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: Salvation
My very first cryptoquote, I think it went like this: “Consideration for others
and good manners are the two main charachteristics of a gentleman.” G.K. Chesterton. 30 years ago.
89 posted on
05/31/2011 9:44:50 AM PDT by
RedwM
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