Heretics E-Book

G.K. Chesterton

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• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Heretics is a collection of 20 essays originally published by G.K. Chesterton in 1905. Chapters Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy On the Negative Spirit On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small Mr. Bernard Shaw Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants Christmas and the Esthetes Omar and the Sacred Vine The Mildness of the Yellow Press The Moods of Mr. George Moore On Sandals and Simplicity Science and the Savages Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson Celts and Celtophiles On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity On the Wit of Whistler The Fallacy of the Young Nation Slum Novelists and the Slums Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy In his first essay, Chesterton describes his understanding of the words Orthodox and Heretic as they apply to, and have changed in, the modern period. Chesterton argues that in modernity, "The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong". He continues to write that society no longer tolerates a man’s life philosophy or religion, yet is increasingly absorbed in "art for art’s sake". Chesterton identifies this trend to replace ideological substance with vagueness and criticizes popular writers, public figures, politicians, and the like for proclaiming a gospel of silence when moral and philosophical direction is needed.