The English author, journalist, and artist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) dedicated his extraordinary intellect and creative power to the reform of English government and society. In 1922 he converted to Roman Catholicism and became its champion. O...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer who wrote in such a variety of genres that he resists simple classification. Previous Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes have examined Chesterton as a poet, a dramatist, a traditional novelist, a myste...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist, essayist, master ideologue of religion and politics, and a seminal figure in the development of the modern detective story, was born on 29 May 1874 in Campden Hill, in the Kensington neighborhood of London. Chesterto...
Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work Heretics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation,...
By Ece Ayhan. Translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat. Sun & Moon. 81 pp. Paper $10.95. Murat Nemet-Nejat is a Turkish-born Jew who has lived for years in New York City, where he sells antique Oriental rugs. A section of his first ...
The Rebirth of Orthodoxy. By Thomas C. Oden. Harper San Francisco, 256 pp., $24.95. CHRISTIANS SEEK the unity for which Christ prayed by looking together to the "faith of the church through the ages." This gospel truth embodied in the scripture and Christian...
My friend tells me Carter had a focused forward expression, he was on a mission. "Do you think someone is going to try and knock him off?" The concern reflects a couple of realities. At 82, Carter would seem to have found a spiritual model...
VATICAN CITY, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The Vatican has praised an agreement between Roman Catholic and Orthodox theologians as a first step towards a possible healing of their millennium-long schism but said the road ahead was long and arduous. The Vatican issued on Thursday...
