The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 1Ignatius Press, 1986 - 397 pages Contains three of Chesterton's most influential works. In Heretics, Chesterton sets forth one of the most telling critiques of contemporary religious notions ever. The Blatchford Controversies are the spirited public debate which led to the writing of Heretics. Then in Orthodoxy, Chesterton accepts the challenge of his opponents and sets forth his own reasons for accepting the Christian Faith. |
Contents
A Note on the Texts | 35 |
On the Negative Spirit | 47 |
On Mr Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small | 54 |
Mr Bernard Shaw | 63 |
7 | 84 |
47 | 91 |
The Mildness of the Yellow Press | 97 |
The Moods of Mr George Moore | 106 |
The Suicide of Thought | 233 |
The Ethics of Elfland | 249 |
The Flag of the World | 269 |
The Paradoxes of Christianity | 285 |
The Eternal Revolution | 307 |
The Romance of Orthodoxy | 329 |
Authority and the Adventurer | 346 |
THE BLATCHFORD CONTROVERSIES | 367 |
Science and the Savages | 115 |
Paganism and Mr Lowes Dickinson | 122 |
Celts and Celtophiles | 132 |
On Smart Novelists and the Smart | 146 |
On Mr McCabe and a Divine Frivolity | 157 |
On the Wit of Whistler | 167 |
Slum Novelists and the Slums | 186 |
Introduction in Defence of Everything Else | 211 |
Foreword | 369 |
Introduction | 371 |
Christianity and Rationalism | 373 |
Why I Believe in Christianity | 381 |
Miracles and Modern Civilisation | 386 |
The Eternal Heroism of the Slums | 390 |
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