Chesterton
What we will discuss tonight !
1. Chesterton’s historical background
2. His experiences with the intellectuals of his time
3. Chesterton as a prophet of the impending evils to
come
4. Natural order of things – his view of the truth
5. His conversion and belief in the Catholic Church
6. Chesterton Paradoxes
7. Some books he wrote particularly Orthodoxy and
Everlasting Man
Discovering G.K. Chesterton
God – God
Truth
Beauty Man- Truth
Wisdom Beauty
Wisdom
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Man
God
“birth of the isms”
Marxism
Communism
Socialism
Angel Fascism
s Atheism
Individualism
Capitalism
Materialism
Secularism
Moral relativism
Ma Skepticism
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