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    <body><![CDATA[Men and women have become Christians solely from reading this one book.  If you are not a Christian, beware this book.  It will possibly convert you.  If it does not, then it will probably irreparably harden your heart.  A book to save you eternally or to damn you to hell forever.  Amazing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was Jesus the son of God? I think one of the most fascinating attempts to answer that question was mounted in the early 20th century by the two famous friends and literary rivals HG Wells and GK Chesterton, respectively the agnostic extraordinaire and the Catholic par excellence. For Wells, so empha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27966827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chesterton is a genius. Period. <br/><br/>This book, more than most others that are on the subject of Christian apologetics, blew me away. I can't really put into words anything more than that. Maybe until I read it again. My mind was just stretched to its limits in the scope and density of his ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4557594">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've now read &quot;The Everlasting Man&quot; for the second time.  It has some of the drawbacks other reviewers have noted--racial epithets that don't go down well in the twenty-first century, Eurocentrism (more below), a style that sometimes obscures the main point.<br/><br/>However, these are s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56765699">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best book I have ever read.<br/><br/>A wonderful chronicle of how the entirety of history reaches its pinnacle in Jesus. From the start, Chesterton takes the poetic road; he swipes at the theory of evolution by asserting the necessity of art, the desire to create, and the noticing of beauty in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16918152">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Chesterton is a lot like a Bruckner symphony:  brilliant in a way, but redundant and ragged on the edges.  Much like I love Bruckner's 4th but find his other symphonies mere re-runs, I absolutely adored &quot;Orthodoxy&quot; but didn't learn anything new from &quot;The Everlasting Man.&quot;  Ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10944746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chesterton's most mature and complete work of history and theory, <em>The Everlasting Man</em> verily bristles with insight, marvel, delight of the mind.<br/><br/>Everything Chesterton writes is fruitful. I say this as a writer myself. There is nothing better to read than Chesterton when you are having diffi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7877027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only reason the book doesn't get a fifth star is because of its painfully euro-centric approach to historiography, philosophy, etc., along with a good many monolithic generalizations. If you can overlook that, however, the prose itself can be quite literally breath-taking at times. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is basically an extended argument for the truth of Christianity's central doctrine of the Incarnation.  Chesterton crafts his arguments with style, grace, humor, and deep intelligence.  It requires patience -- the book demands attention and work and Chesterton's use of schemes and tropes i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44575113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5 stars (less than 5 only because some parts in the book are a little dry and hard to get through, but not often). I came across a reference to this book while reading another work that I can't remember (most likely it was C.S. Lewis or some such) and always wanted to read it. <br/><br/>Chestert...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67769770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The good thing about G.K. Chesterton is that he takes a long time to say things that should be obvious but that you never realized. In this survey of human history he talks about how the sufficiency and lacks in pre-Christian (Greek and Roman) and Eastern religion and philosophy, and all the ways th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29185183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nearly Amazing. <br/>I really, really, really like Chesterton. Though his <u>Orthodoxy</u> is one of my all time favorite books, this one is nearly as good. The story of humanity as a great adverb to the divine fiat &quot;let us make man&quot;. Christ is at the center, as the first man. Before him is the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65180689">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this in looking through information about Lewis and McDonald--spurred by a philosophical conversation with James yesterday evening.  Apparently Lewis credits this book for his Christian intellect.  I figure it might be good from someone looking into the intellectual side of the experience th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54362672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[IMO, Chesterton's best book. It is worth a read every year, and can be helpful to anyone interested in truth. Chesterton as always, is both amusing and serious, mostly at the same time. A useful introduction to God in Christ, and man's destiny in Him. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[GKC labors at first in discussing the course of ancient human history, which, as he readily admits in the appendices, is not his forte. Yet as the narrative progresses it builds, almost imperceptibly, into a tremendously powerful - and inspiring - crescendo.]]></body>
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