Orthodoxy: Centennial Edition
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G. K. Chesterton’s memoir of faith was named “one of the 10 indispensable spiritual classics of the past 1500 years.” This gorgeous new edition of ORTHODOXY celebrates the 100th anniversary of its publication. [See also the companion volume, a centennial edition of THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY.]Amazon.com Review
If G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a “slovenly autobiography,” then we need more slobs in the world. This odd, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of “practical romance, the combination of something that is weird with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an thought of marvel and an thought of welcome.” Drawing on such facts as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical power is the way to achieve a excellent and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-planet as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called “Power and the Adventurer,” is especially persuasive. It’s hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. –Michael Joseph Yucky
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Insofar as entertainment value, Chesterton should be praised for his gift of prose; he would make a fantastic talk show host! But additional than simple amusement at his turns of axiom, there is small that is intellectually bearable in this book. His logic is like a sieve full of self-defeating holes. Appalled and exasperated, I could not bring myself to read past the first half of the book. An agnostic, maybe I shouldn’t have hoped to be impressed by what was clearly meant ONLY for people of strong Christian faith. But, I do have respect for Chesterton’s passion for his faith. I can now start to know what having a romance with one’s faith means. This is a valiant attempt to be persuasive in an area where religious faith has no business in, is inescapably incompatible with, and hence should stay clear of–the logical, intellectual realm. No matter how much passion Chesterton has or how formidable his might of conviction is, he cannot perform miracles in a fact-bound world; blind religious faith simply cannot be reconciled with factual scientific logic. His only excuse is that he existed in a time when science was not as advanced as it is today.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Having come recently to the Orthodox faith, I keenly cracked the covers of G.K. Chresterton’s ORTHODOXY, The Romance of Faith. What I establish was a carmudgeon’s rantings, which for the most part consisted of points that had faulty underpinnings. More disturbing still was the underlying racism and elitism natural fiber throughout the fabric of this so-called testimonal on faith. Fortunatley for me, this book isn’t even really about Orthodoxy, but about Roman Catholicism, and Anglicanism, so my burgeoning faith is still safe from the likes of Chesterton.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book has THE WORST formatting I’ve ever seen. It looks like it was hastily place together using Microsoft Word. Very amateurish. The take in doesn’t even have the title on the spine, so I can’t admit it on my bookshelf.
The version from BiblioBazaar:
Orthodoxy
is MUCH MUCH better, well worth the extra dollar or two.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Chesterton no doubt was a brilliant man! In Orthodoxy he does not write for the common person, but for philosophers and intellectuals who delight in such semantics. I had wished he had expressed his thoughts more simply: i.e. in parables and analogies, like his Lord did, but such is very hard to do! As a preacher of the gospel I was disappointed with much of the book for this reason.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book is a hilariously amusing read of the rolling on the floor variety! It had me LOL uncontrollably in public when I first learned it at a local bookstore. And I take place to be a heretic, of the early Christian variety with a small New Age thrown in, that Chesterton so rumor has it that dislikes.
Paraphrasing some of my favorite lines (about the editor of the Clarion) “he’s one early Christian that should have been eaten by lions” or “there’s another word for Agnosticism, it’s called Ignorance” or “Jesus tells you to like your national, Annie Bessant says you are your national” and then goes on to complain that the reason you like your national is the same reason you like a woman, because she’s different from you.
He also has lot of not so Christian things to say about George Bernard Shaw (rumor has it that a compulsive liar, I never knew! hehehe) and Nietzche. Occasionally Chesterton makes a salient point, such as will being limiting. But most of it is the very “light sophism” that he complains his critics accuse him of. Students of logic would like this book because it’s fun to pick apart the endless twisted reasoning. He gets away with it (and why I suspect this book has remained well loved for so long) because of the unintentional humorous bon mots combined with a childish glee and naivety and, yes, charm. Chesterton doesn’t like the “amusing” adjective applied to him and complains he never says anything amusing that he doesn’t deeply judge in first. Poor guy. Nonetheless not a page goes by that doesn’t have you chuckling.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5