"abstracted and indexed in the ATLA Religion Database, Humanities International Index, MLA International Bibliography, and TOC Premier. The Chesterton Review The Chesterton Review is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture (Seton Hall University). It was established in 1974 to promote an interest in all aspects of G. K. Chesterton's life, work, art, and ideas, including his Christian apologetics. The journal includes essays and articles written by Chesterton, and occasionally publishes special issues on particular topics. It also publishes special editions in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian. The editor-in-chief is Ian Boyd. The journal"
"subject both duelists judge of utmost importance). The Ball and the Cross The Ball and the Cross is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. The title refers to a more worldly and rationalist worldview, represented by a ball or sphere, and the cross representing Christianity. The first chapters of the book were serialized from 1905 to 1906 with the completed work published in 1909. The novel's beginning involves debates about rationalism and religion between a Professor Lucifer and a monk named Michael. A part of this section was quoted in Pope John Paul I's Illustrissimi letter to G. K. Chesterton."
"The Ball and the Cross The Ball and the Cross is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. The title refers to a more worldly and rationalist worldview, represented by a ball or sphere, and the cross representing Christianity. The first chapters of the book were serialized from 1905 to 1906 with the completed work published in 1909. The novel's beginning involves debates about rationalism and religion between a Professor Lucifer and a monk named Michael. A part of this section was quoted in Pope John Paul I's Illustrissimi letter to G. K. Chesterton. Much of the rest of the book"
"Everlasting Man"". Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an ""orthodox"" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, his ""friendly enemy"", said of him, ""He was a man of colossal genius."" Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin. Chesterton was born in Campden Hill in Kensington, London, the son of Marie Louise, née Grosjean, and Edward Chesterton. He was baptised at the age of one month into the Church"
"detective fiction, including five novels and a short story featuring Miles Bredon, who is employed as a private investigator by the Indescribable Insurance Company. Directed by his religious superiors, he retranslated the ""Latin Vulgate Bible"" into English, using Hebrew and Greek sources, beginning in 1936. His works on religious themes include: ""Some Loose Stones"" (1913), ""Reunion All Round"" (1914), ""A Spiritual Aeneid"" (1918), ""The Belief of Catholics"" (1927), ""Caliban in Grub Street"" (1930), ""Heaven and Charing Cross"" (1935), ""Let Dons Delight"" (1939) and ""Captive Flames"" (1940). When G. K. Chesterton died in 1936, Knox delivered a panegyric for his Requiem"
"biography of friend G. K. Chesterton – a book which, to this day, remains as galvanizing on its subject as is Chesterton’s own on St. Thomas Aquinas. And she also wrote widely in other areas, including New Testament scholarship, spirituality, and substantive biographies of Newman, her own father, and Robert Browning. Also falling under her pen's purview were the stories of countless saints and lesser notables, among them her personal friend, the accomplished writer and mystic Caryll Houselander. In 1926 she and her husband, Frank Sheed, moved to London and founded Sheed & Ward. Words were the couple’s stock in"
"Father Brown Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922. Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes, a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. In ""The"
"Secret of Father Brown"" (1927) 5. ""The Scandal of Father Brown"" (1935) 6. ""Uncollected Stories"" (1914, 1936) Father Brown Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922. Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman"
"1965 (registered charity number 252034). It supports the work of the Roman Catholic Church in the parish of Beaconsfield. Frances Blogg Frances Chesterton, born Frances Alice Blogg (1869–1938) was an English author of verse, songs and school drama. She was the wife of G. K. Chesterton and had a large role in his career as amanuensis and personal manager. Frances was born on 28 June 1869, the first of seven children of George William Blogg and Blanche Keymer. Frances’ mother taught her and her sisters to think independently, having them attend London’s first kindergarten. She was educated at a progressive"
"G. K. Chesterton and the poet and parliamentarian Hilaire Belloc. He met Henry James who he found to be more English than American at a New Year's Eve party at the home of the writer Edmund Gosse. He made a pilgrimage to Plymouth: ""From Plymouth, as you know, sailed forth the blue-nosed Puritans to make laws just as blue and to burn witches in Massachusetts."" He also studied at Oxford University: ""I'm spending a short time up here in this picturesque place of dead creeds and living prejudices. Have been attending special lectures and studying the life. It appears to"
"material such as poems, pieces of fiction, cartoons, and so on. He additionally would personally answer letters to the editor at times. ""G.K.'s Weekly"" generally published from a viewpoint of distributism, social traditionalism, and democratic pluralism, with criticism against both 'big government' and 'big business' while in support of the 'common man' (in Chesterton's view) intermingled with commentary on social and cultural topics. He would condemn ideological trends such as Marxist-Leninism in depth while drawing upon his own strong Roman Catholic faith. As in his books, Chesterton was known for writing in the weekly in a pithy, witty style, such"
"K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, as well as G. E. M. Anscombe. In contemporary times Christianity is defended through the work of figures such as Robert Barron, Richard Swinburne, J. P. Moreland, Ravi Zacharias, Rabi Maharaj, Robert Hutchinson, John Lennox, Doug Wilson, Lee Strobel, Francis Collins, Henry M. Morris, Hugh W. Nibley, Alister McGrath, Alvin Plantinga, Hugh Ross, Frank Turek, Greg Koukl, James White, David Wood, Dinesh D’Souza, David Bentley Hart, Nabeel Qureshi, William Lane Craig, Ken Boa and Roger Scruton. The original Greek ""apologia"" (ἀπολογία, from ἀπολογέομαι, ""apologeomai"", ""speak in return, defend oneself"") was a formal verbal defense,"
"Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). Kipling's works include ""The Jungle Books"" (1894–95), ""The Man Who Would Be King"" and ""Kim"" (1901), while his inspirational poem ""If—"" (1895) is a national favourite and a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism. Kipling's reputation declined during his lifetime, but more recently postcolonial studies has ""rekindled an intense interest in his work, viewing it as both symptomatic and critical of imperialist attitudes"". Strongly influenced by his Christian faith, G. K. Chesterton was a prolific and hugely influential writer with a diverse output. His best-known character is the priest-detective Father Brown, who appeared only in short"
"influence so completely that we do not even know when we are thinking Chesterton."" He is buried in Beaconsfield in the Catholic Cemetery. Chesterton's estate was probated at £28,389, approximately equivalent in 2012 terms to £1.3 million. Near the end of Chesterton's life, Pope Pius XI invested him as Knight Commander with Star of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great (KC*SG). The Chesterton Society has proposed that he be beatified. He is remembered liturgically on 13 June by the Episcopal Church, with a provisional feast day as adopted at the 2009 General Convention. Chesterton wrote around 80 books,"
"Catholic faith was influenced in part by the English writer G. K. Chesterton, before Chesterton himself became Catholic. When Chesterton was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1922, he in turn was influenced by Knox. Knox wrote and broadcast on Christianity and other subjects. While Roman Catholic chaplain at the University of Oxford (1926–1939) and after his elevation to a monsignor in 1936, he wrote classic detective stories. In 1929 he codified the rules for detective stories into a ""decalogue"" of ten commandments. He was one of the founding members of the Detection Club and wrote several works of"
"The Everlasting Man The Everlasting Man is a Christian apologetics book written by G. K. Chesterton, published in 1925. It is, to some extent, a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells' ""The Outline of History"", disputing Wells' portrayals of human life and civilisation as a seamless development from animal life and of Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure. Chesterton detailed his own spiritual journey in ""Orthodoxy"", but in this book he tries to illustrate the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilisation. According to the evolutionary outlines of history proposed by Wells and others, mankind is"
"comes from comments about Jews being responsible for both the USSR's communism and the US's unbridled capitalism (1929). John Gross in ""The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters"" (1969) commented: Chesterton, however, opposed all forms of persecution of Jews and all violent anti-semitism. In 1934, after the Nazi Party took power in Germany he wrote that: G. K.'s Weekly G. K.'s Weekly was a British publication founded in 1925 (with its pilot edition surfacing in late 1924) by seminal writer G. K. Chesterton, continuing until his death in 1936. Its articles typically discussed topical cultural, political, and socio-economic"
"for they are not a breed. They are, in cold fact, what Dickens describes: 'a dustbin of individual accidents,' of damaged dignity, and often of damaged gentility."" Chesterton is often associated with his close friend, the poet and essayist Hilaire Belloc. George Bernard Shaw coined the name ""Chesterbelloc"" for their partnership, and this stuck. Though they were very different men, they shared many beliefs; Chesterton eventually joined Belloc in the Catholic faith, and both voiced criticisms of capitalism and socialism. They instead espoused a third way: distributism. ""G. K.'s Weekly"", which occupied much of Chesterton's energy in the last 15"
"Manalive Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the ""holy fool"", such as in Dostoevsky's ""The Idiot"" and Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"". This is a book in two parts. The first, ""The Enigma of Innocent Smith"", concerns the arrival of a new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, this man (who is tentatively identified by lodger Arthur Inglewood as an ex-schoolmate named Innocent Smith) is accompanied by a great wind, and he breathes new life into the household with his games"
"and religion, the school aims to prepare children to think both rationally and creatively, to defend their faith, and to contribute positively to society. Dale Ahlquist Dale Ahlquist (born June 14, 1958, in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an author, public speaker, Evangelical convert to Catholicism, and Catholic apologist. He has written, edited, or contributed to more than fifteen books on G. K. Chesterton, including ""The Apostle of Common Sense"", ""Common Sense 101: Lessons from G. K. Chesterton"", ""The Complete Thinker"", and ""In Defense of Sanity"". Ahlquist is the president and co-founder of the American Chesterton Society and the publisher of"
"Ian Boyd (academic) Ian Boyd is Distinguished Professor of Catholic Studies at Seton Hall University, founder and editor of ""The Chesterton Review"", and president of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture. A renowned scholar of G. K. Chesterton, he is the author of the book ""The Novels of G.K. Chesterton"". He was born and raised in Canada and completed his Master of Arts degree at the University of Toronto and Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. For several years, he was a professor of English at St. Thomas More College at the University of"
"A. K. Chesterton Arthur Kenneth Chesterton MC (1 May 1899 – 16 August 1973) was a journalist and political activist, born at Krugersdorp, near Johannesburg, in the Transvaal Republic. He was involved in the founding of several far-right movements in opposition to the break-up of the British Empire. He supported a strong anti-immigration stance thereafter as increasing numbers of former British subjects migrated to the United Kingdom. The author G. K. Chesterton was his second cousin. Born in Krugersdorp, South African Republic, A. K. Chesterton was sent to Berkhamsted School in England but persuaded his parents to let him return"
"The young G. K. Chesterton wrote on what he considered the flawed premise of the idea, arguing that the idea of God preceded human mythologies, rather than developing from them. Chesterton said of Allen's book on the evolution of the idea of God: ""it would be much more interesting if God wrote a book on the evolution of the idea of Grant Allen"". Allen also became a pioneer in science fiction, with the novel ""The British Barbarians"" (1895). This book, published about the same time as H. G. Wells's ""The Time Machine"" (which appeared January–May 1895, and which includes a"
"his book ""Orthodoxy"", Christian Apologist and writer G. K. Chesterton asserts that there have been substantial disagreements about faith from the time of the New Testament and Jesus. He pointed out that the apostles all argued against changing the teachings of Christ as did the earliest church fathers. Jesus also refers to false prophets () and the ""darnel"" (, ) of the flock and how their distortion of the Christian faith is to be rejected. The development of doctrine, the position of orthodoxy, and the relationship between the various opinions is a matter of continuing academic debate. Since most Christians"
"Alfred Chester Alfred Chester (September 7, 1928 – August 1, 1971) was an American writer known for his provocative, experimental work, including the novels ""Jamie Is My Heart's Desire"" and ""The Exquisite Corpse"" and the short story collection ""Behold Goliath"". Chester was born in Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York. X-rays used to treat childhood illness left him bald, and he wore a wig, which though noticeable was not something that people felt comfortable mentioning. He was educated at Orthodox Jewish yeshiva. He attended New York University where he met fellow writers Cynthia Ozick (who later wrote about him in her"
"Alfred Chester Alfred Chester (September 7, 1928 – August 1, 1971) was an American writer known for his provocative, experimental work, including the novels ""Jamie Is My Heart's Desire"" and ""The Exquisite Corpse"" and the short story collection ""Behold Goliath"". Chester was born in Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York. X-rays used to treat childhood illness left him bald, and he wore a wig, which though noticeable was not something that people felt comfortable mentioning. He was educated at Orthodox Jewish yeshiva. He attended New York University where he met fellow writers Cynthia Ozick (who later wrote about him in her"
"G. K.'s Weekly G. K.'s Weekly was a British publication founded in 1925 (with its pilot edition surfacing in late 1924) by seminal writer G. K. Chesterton, continuing until his death in 1936. Its articles typically discussed topical cultural, political, and socio-economic issues yet the publication also ran poems, cartoons, and other such material that piqued Chesterton's interest. It contained much of his journalistic work done in the latter part of his life, and extracts from it were published as the book ""The Outline of Sanity"". Precursor publications existed by the names of The Eye-Witness and The New Witness, the"
"wrote the introduction to the 1967 reprint of J. M. Robertson's book ""Pagan Christs"". He ghostwrote many of the books attributed to Eustace Chesser. Hawton authored many novels, including science fiction. Some of these were published under the pseudonyms Jack Lethaby or John Sylvester. He identified as a Marxist but later moved away from this viewpoint. He has been described as ""one of the most significant humanists in postwar Britain."" Nonfiction Novels Hector Hawton Hector Hawton (7 February 1901 - 14 December 1975) was a British humanist, novelist and rationalist writer. Hawton was born in Plymouth and was educated at"
"K. Chesterton's Father Brown, with a bit of Ian Fleming's James Bond thrown in. In his first three appearances especially, Tallis provides both spiritual leadership and insight into the realms of crime and international intrigue. The character Canon Tallis appears in the following books: In The Arm of the Starfish (1965), protagonist Adam Eddington first sees Tallis at JFK Airport, accompanied by twelve-year-old Polly O'Keefe. Adam is immediately warned against him by Carolyn ""Kali"" Cutter. She identifies him as a real priest attached to the diocese of Gibraltar, but also calls him a ""phony"". Despite the apparent innocence of a"
"Frances Blogg Frances Chesterton, born Frances Alice Blogg (1869–1938) was an English author of verse, songs and school drama. She was the wife of G. K. Chesterton and had a large role in his career as amanuensis and personal manager. Frances was born on 28 June 1869, the first of seven children of George William Blogg and Blanche Keymer. Frances’ mother taught her and her sisters to think independently, having them attend London’s first kindergarten. She was educated at a progressive Ladies' School in Fitzroy Square run by Rosalie and Minna Praetorius, followed by Notting Hill High School. Her father"
"mystery of ""The Club of Queer Trades"". The Club of Queer Trades The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a ""queer trade"", using the word ""queer"" in the sense of ""peculiar""). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income. The framing narrative by ""Cherub"" Swinburne describes his quest for ""The Club of"
"stated view, having a fondness for the dramatic, that all nations should maintain and return to traditional dress, and enjoyed wearing a classical form of dress himself in the manner of capes and swordsticks. He gave this idea free rein in his first novel ""The Napoleon of Notting Hill"". In the chapter 'On Zionism', one also finds Chesterton's dim appraisal of the patriotism of Benjamin Disraeli (who had been baptised Anglican at age 13). He argues in effect that the former Prime Minister, due to his Jewish birth, would naturally have abandoned England (a Christian nation) ""in extremis"": Further discussion"
"Stephen Marlowe Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser, in Brooklyn, New York, died , in Williamsburg, Virginia) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Goya, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. He is best known for his detective character Chester Drum, whom he created in the 1955 novel ""The Second Longest Night"". Lesser also wrote under the pseudonyms Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, C.H. Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder and Ellery Queen. Lesser attended the College of William & Mary, earning his degree in philosophy, marrying Leigh Lang shortly after graduating. The couple"