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Original Title:	Heretics
ISBN:	0486449149 (ISBN13: 9780486449142)
Edition Language:	English

Heretics

G.K. Chesterton

Paperback | Pages: 176 pages

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Title	:	Heretics
Author	:	G.K. Chesterton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	June 23rd 2006 by Dover Publications (first published 1905)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Religion. Theology. Nonfiction. Christian. Christianity. Classics

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G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on "heretics" — those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views — Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall into that category from the literary and art worlds. Luminaries such as Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and James McNeill Whistler come under the author's scrutiny, where they meet with equal measures of his characteristic wisdom and good humor.
In addition to incisive assessments of well-known individuals ("Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small" and "Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants"), these essays contain observations on the wider world. "On Sandals and Simplicity," "Science and the Savages," "On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family," "On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set," and "Slum Novelists and the Slums" reflect the main themes of Chesterton's life's work. Heretics roused the ire of some critics for censuring contemporary philosophies without providing alternatives; the author responded a few years later with a companion volume, Orthodoxy. Sardonic, jolly, and generous, both books are vintage Chesterton.

He is criticizing those who hold incomplete and inadequate views about "life, the universe, and everything." He is, in short, criticizing all that host of non-Christian views of reality, as he demonstrated in his follow-up book Orthodoxy. The book is both an easy read and a difficult read. But he manages to demonstrate, among other things, that our new 21st century heresies are really not new because he himself deals with most of them.

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Philosophy in the Edwardian Age7 March 2016 This is one of those books that has so much in it that it is literally impossible to cover in a single review. Okay, I probably could do it but the review would be incredibly long and I would probably end up repeating everything Chesterton said in the book, but then again a lot of my reviews end up being a short rehash of what the author said anyway. I guess the reason that I do this is because even if everybody who reads this review puts the book onto

Obviously, this is G.K. Chesterton so I am going to love it. However, probably my "least" favorite of the books I've read by him. It feels somewhat random and thrown together. I can see how it paved the way for Orthodoxy, though, one of his greatest works. Contains many profound thoughts! I love the way he writes. I particularly appreciate his advocacy for "bad" novels.

Heresy means a belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially Christian) doctrine and so a heretic would be a person holding such a belief or opinion. Its a word we dont use or hear much anymore, probably because we are afraid of certainty in religion. We prefer tolerance. This trend was gaining ground in Chesterons day. (Wouldnt you love to hear what he would have to say about our world today?!) Heretics, I was surprised to read in this excellent lecture article by Dale Ahlquist,

Chesterton, let's face it, is thematically ataxic. He can't keep to one idea; in the words of an acquaintance of mine, he sidesteps issues by making sense. Reading Orthodoxy was an experience analogous to hearing an inebriated genius swerve through celestial ideas. The book's only lack is that its subject demands a structure it doesn't provide. Heretics is a different story. Here Chesterton is truest to his form. He's free to roam the world of his improvised ideas as he surveys what he considers

No review by me could even remotely begin to do justice to the wit and wisdom in GK Chesterton's book Heretics.I read this book at the recommendation of my son, Alan. I'm glad he encouraged me strongly, I might add to read Heretics. Next, I will read Orthodoxy.Although Chesterton wrote in a different time and on a different continent, his words have strong application for what we are facing today with postmodernism, pluralism, and a new kind of religion called tolerance, which is really

I really wanted to like this book, and I really wanted to like Chesterton. But after finishing two of his apologetic or more philosophical books, I remain unimpressed and disappointed. More often than not, Chesterton makes a strong claim contradicting a common assumption or perception, and then fails to follow it up with any kind of support. When he would present an "argument" against either a person's beliefs or assumptions, or a more common/communal belief, sometimes he would simply turn the

I must have deposited every third or fourth sentence from this book into my OneNote file for future use and reflection. His sayings go down easily, but they have a collective impact. He can skewer the fallacious assumption of one's worldview without making the reader feel personally pricked.Chesterton is that writer I would never think to list among my favorites, and of whom I have read only a small fraction of his work. Yet, every time I get into any nonfiction he wrote, I think I need to