The Everlasting ManFree EPUB and PDF
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Why read it
For the curious reader who wants to see how a Catholic reads world history and why he believes Christianity is unique. It also serves those who have doubted the faith and look for a defence made with imagination rather than formulas. It is said to have influenced C. S. Lewis's conversion, and it helps explain why so many people recommend it.
Summary
Chesterton tells the story of humanity «from the outside», as it might look to someone who took nothing for granted: prehistoric man, pagan myths, the Roman world and, at the end, Christianity. The book argues that the figure of Christ and the history of the Church do not fit the pattern of one religion among others. It is a work of apologetics written with wit, setting out the author's thesis without a formal treatise.
Quotes
Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a god who knew the way out of the grave.
Omnipotence and impotence, or divinity and infancy, do definitely make a sort of epigram which a million repetitions cannot turn into a platitude.
Bethlehem is emphatically a place where extremes meet.
Moral rating
6 of 6: No drawbacks. See on delibris.org
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