G. K. Chesterton Rocks

Finding a 6'4" 300 lb genius is quite a find. Here is the man whose book The Everlasting Man was credited with C. S. Lewis conversion(I always knew there was more to it that a motorcycle ride).

I first bumped into Chesterton on an EWTN half hour show narrated and written by Dale Ahlquist dedicated to his thought. I was intrigued and have now read a few books and am fascinated. His personality and intellect now consume me. His contemporariness is startling. A year after Nietzche was published in England, Chesterton knew where it would lead in our time. Chesterton predicted modernism and post-modernism. He debated the best thinkers of his time and bested them all. He did this as a working journalist, writing thousands of newspaper columns, a series of mystery stories featuring a Catholic priest detective, novels, plays, poems (that rhyme) and the most engagingly packaged philosophy and apologetics ever written.

I read Orthodoxy first, considered to be his most complete philosophical work. I re-read it three times (it's short). I read The Man Who Was Thursday. I read a Father Brown mystery, then Eugenics and Other Evils, Dale Ahlquist's two books, and an essay by Ralph C. Wood entitled "The Permanent Validity of Christian Humanism". I've become a member of the Denver Chesterton Society and have a new library card for the Chesterton Reading Room of the Cardinal Stafford Library at St. John Vianney Seminary that houses it. In short, I'm nuts about Chesterton right now.

I just bought The Everlasting Man to read on our Barnes & Noble color Nook. Gotta go.