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1908 · Apologetic essays · 9 chapters
Orthodoxy
A vivid account of discovering Christian belief as both intellectually sane and imaginatively adventurous.
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Essayist · Apologist
G. K. Chesterton
1874–1936
A joyful defender of wonder, reason, common life, and the drama of Christian orthodoxy.
In brief
Life & thought
The English essayist Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote poetry, fiction, criticism, and Christian apologetics. He entered the Catholic Church in 1922; his earlier Orthodoxy records a decisive stage in that intellectual pilgrimage.
Works in the Library
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Text ready1916 edition · Poetry collection
Poems
Chesterton’s collected verse includes “Lepanto,” a thunderous imaginative retelling of the battle and its Catholic memory.
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