A refreshing new collection of Chesterton's writings on religion, Christianity, miracles, rationalism, and the Catholic Church. The brilliant essays in this volume preceded and inspired the later apologetic works of C.S. Lewis, and are as relevant (and joyfully devastating) to the "new" atheism of Hitchens and Dawkins, as they were to the materialistic rationalism of a century ago. Proofread and elegantly formatted for the Kindle, this book is a notable improvement on the various error-riddled public domain texts previously available on Amazon.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.
Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox". Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.
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