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by: Quentin Lauer
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 170
EAN: 9780823211999
ISBN: 0823211991
Label: Fordham University Press
Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 204
Publication Date: January 01, 1992
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date: January 01, 1992
Sales Rank: 956083
Studio: Fordham University Press
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
It is an indisputable fact that the credentials of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) were by no means those of a professional philosopher. He had no degree in the subject and he never attended a university. Nor was he widely or deeply read in the tradition of Western philosophy. He was, nonetheless, a truly philosophical thinker: convincing, persuasive, provocative, controversial. Despite all this, no one has, up to the present, devoted an entire book to the examination and analysis of his properly philosophical thinking and writing.
This book attempts to range far and wide in the writings of Chesterton, perhaps even to betray him slightly by trying to systematize his thought. It is, however, not betraying Chesterton to claim that there is one central theme around which all his thinking and writing can be ordered: the theme of the grandeur of the reality of human, created in the image of God and participating in the beauty of divine creativity. His philsophy, if we want to characterize it in any one way, is a philosophy of life, of human living, with all that implies of rationality and freedom, of truth and paradox, of religion and morality, or faith and hope and love—in short, of all that makes human living spectaculary worthwhile.
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