Nonfiction · 1908
Orthodoxy
Chesterton sets out to explain, chapter by chapter, how he arrived independently at Christian orthodoxy by reasoning through his own experience of the world — a universe that struck him as both wildly strange and reassuringly ordered — before discovering that the creed he had worked out for himself already had a name.
He wrote it as a companion piece to his earlier Heretics (1905), whose critics had asked him to state his own positive beliefs rather than only attack others'; Orthodoxy, published in 1908, was his answer.
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1874–1936 · Modern
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was born in Kensington, London, and worked most of his life as a journalist and essayist, writing for the Daily News and the Illustrated London News. A big man — six foot four, known for his cape, crumpled hat and swordstick — he made his name with the essay collections Heretics (1905) and Orthodoxy (1908) and the novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), then created the detective-priest Father Brown in The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) and The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914). He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, in 1936.
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