G. K. Chesterton
English author and Christian apologist (1874-1936) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 62
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Something wrong?He turned paradox into argument and argument into art. Chesterton wrote detective fiction, Christian apologetics, and essays that twisted proverbs inside out - all in service of defending tradition against a century that wanted to scrap it.
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, Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past.
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence.
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About this person
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born 29 May 1874 in England and built a career on wit that cut against the grain. He created Father Brown, the priest-detective, and wrote Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man - works that defended Christian belief with the tools of paradox and allegory. Time magazine noted he made his points by carefully turning popular sayings inside out. He began as a high church Anglican and converted to Catholicism as his orthodoxy deepened. Biographers placed him in the line of Victorian thinkers like Newman and Ruskin. Jorge Luis Borges, influenced by his work, compared him to Edgar Allan Poe. He died 14 June 1936, called the "prince of paradox" for a style that made defense look like play.
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