Book description
'Why anyone would pick up a book with that formidable title eludes me,'
writes Philip Yancey of G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. 'But one day I did
so and my faith has never recovered. I was experiencing a time of
spiritual dryness in which everything seemed stale, warmed over,
lifeless. Orthodoxy brought freshness and, above all, a new spirit of adventure.'
'We direly need another Chesterton today, I think. In a time when
culture and faith have drifted even further apart, we could use his
brilliance, his entertaining style, and above all his generous and
joyful spirit. He managed to propound the Christian faith with as much
wit, good humour and sheer intellectual force as anyone in this century.'
Since its first publication in 1908, this classic work has represented a
pivotal step in the adoption of a credible faith by many other Christian
thinkers, including C. S. Lewis. Written as a spiritual autobiography,
it stands as a remarkable and inspirational apologetic for Christianity.
G. K. Chesterton ranks alongside C. S. Lewis as one of the twentieth
century's leading Christian thinkers and writers. He is perhaps best
known for his much-loved Father Brown series of detective stories.
