Orthodoxy
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In his introduction to Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton recounts his journey of examining the great questions of life, only to believe he was alone in his discoveries. He eventually realized he was in the “ridiculous position of being backed up by all of Christendom,” finding that his “fancied” modern ideas were, in fact, “eighteen hundred years…
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Following the Western tradition of spiritual autobiography—established by writers such as St. Augustine and Thomas Merton—G.K. Chesterton compiled his religious views in his most celebrated work, Orthodoxy. Written as a sequel to the critiques found in his earlier book, Heretics, Orthodoxy serves as both a formal apologetic and a personal testimony of his conversion to…