Anonymous
4th February 2004, 02:51 PM
http://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/gkc/books/ortho14.txt
This is a book about how one man came to believe the way he does. But this isnt just any man, this is a extremely brilliant man. Who was a extremely well known writer around 1900's. He wrote anything from biographies, to well known iction novels, to essays on any topic (I read somwhere he wrote over 4,000 essays in his life), and books on his faith. He was a Christian that had some brilliant ways of dealling with faith and Dogma. It wasnt easy for me to read but was well worth it. If you are looking for a sense of Joy in your faith and are not finding it in the world we live in, read this book. In his book he says that within faith there is room for mysticism, but in the world in which we live (finite math and science) there is no room for mystery. You may disagree with some of what he says but the fact is that he will make you view Christianity differently than you have ever done before. The book is online at the page up top. Go there and scroll down untill you get to "Orthodoxy" by G. K. Chesterton. I am going to leave you with a quote from him: "Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - Himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not doubt - Devine reason." - G. K. Cesterton - Give the book a chance!
This is a book about how one man came to believe the way he does. But this isnt just any man, this is a extremely brilliant man. Who was a extremely well known writer around 1900's. He wrote anything from biographies, to well known iction novels, to essays on any topic (I read somwhere he wrote over 4,000 essays in his life), and books on his faith. He was a Christian that had some brilliant ways of dealling with faith and Dogma. It wasnt easy for me to read but was well worth it. If you are looking for a sense of Joy in your faith and are not finding it in the world we live in, read this book. In his book he says that within faith there is room for mysticism, but in the world in which we live (finite math and science) there is no room for mystery. You may disagree with some of what he says but the fact is that he will make you view Christianity differently than you have ever done before. The book is online at the page up top. Go there and scroll down untill you get to "Orthodoxy" by G. K. Chesterton. I am going to leave you with a quote from him: "Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - Himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not doubt - Devine reason." - G. K. Cesterton - Give the book a chance!