Prefatory Note and Introduction: The Plan of This Book (27.2Mb).You have to give in to the Chestertonian style, but if you do, be careful - you might just be converted.' The author Ross Douthat credits that, 'Chesterton's somewhat loosey-goosey outline of history doubles as the best modern argument for Christianity I've ever read.

Chesterton detailed his own spiritual journey in Orthodoxy, but in this book he tries to illustrate the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilisation. Wells' The Outline of History, disputing Wells' portrayals of human life and civilisation as a seamless development from animal life and of Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure. It is, to some extent, a deliberate rebuttal of H. The Everlasting Man is a Christian apologetics book written by G. (Prefatory Note)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit .(For a different start date, just change the YYMMDD date in the URL for a different number of days between episodes, change the number Wells in his view of history, it is the more right that I should here congratulate him on the courage and constructive imagination which carried through his vast and varied and intensely interesting work but still more on having asserted the reasonable right of the amateur to do what he can with the facts which the specialists provide. As I have more than once differed from Mr. To suggest this I have not needed to go much beyond matters known to us all I make no claim to learning and have to depend for some things, as has rather become the fashion, on those who are more learned. Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than any sort of Christians and its thesis is that those who say that Christ stands side by side with similar myths, and his religion side by side with similar religions, are only repeating a very stale formula contradicted by a very striking fact. It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject, above all this subject, without showing that he is a Catholic but this study is not specially concerned with the differences between a Catholic and a Protestant.

The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. LibriVox recording of The Everlasting Man by G.

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