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Re: For those that have read Chesterton's Orthodoxy....

PostPosted: December 2nd, 2008, 4:10 pm
by Zattara08
I completely agree with Chesterton never sounding bitter at all.

he calls people out continuously but does so in such a whimsical way that you laugh before your offended.

there was a great rendition of Orthodoxy that was put out with a more youth type base and I found it was easier to read that version. ( I cannot find the book online, but if I do I will post it) Orthodoxy is amazing but if you have a hard time reading through that, Everlasting Man will be a nightmare!

Either way, I love Chesterton (as you can see by my signature) and in many ways I feel his spirit when reading Lewis. Although, I will agree Lewis was definitely more of the logician.

Re: For those that have read Chesterton's Orthodoxy....

PostPosted: May 8th, 2009, 2:22 pm
by Bulgakov
I had to read Orthodoxy two or three times to really get what Chesterton was saying (of course, I picked up a number of delightful aphorisms from GK). It also helps to understand the current of modern thought with which GK was dealing at the time.

But as Lewis said, good books invite good reading, and sometimes a book needs to be read several times to be appreciated.

Re: For those that have read Chesterton's Orthodoxy....

PostPosted: May 9th, 2009, 1:51 am
by rusmeister

Re: For those that have read Chesterton's Orthodoxy....

PostPosted: May 16th, 2009, 7:29 am
by Mornche Geddick
I have to say I had no trouble at all understanding Orthodoxy first go. I knew what sort of philosophies GKC was talking about straightaway. Perhaps they are perennial errors that have similar forms today. Or perhaps I am just better acquainted with Chesterton's epoch than I realise.

Like Rusmeister, I enjoy the Pilgrim's Regress more and more every time I read it. But not That Hideous Strength, which reveals many flaws. I think Lewis did a lot better when he tried the same theme again in The Last Battle.

Re: For those that have read Chesterton's Orthodoxy....

PostPosted: January 25th, 2010, 7:54 am
by MotherLodeBeth
What I like about Chestertons works is its heavy and serious and makes me read and re-read what he says and then I sit and digest it all. Unlike so much of the pablum that passes for Christian literature these days. ~Beth~