shaun's review
The Everlasting Man
by G.K. Chesterton
shaun's review
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
shaun's review
rating:
bookshelves:
christian
recommended for: every single person on earth
The best book I have ever read.
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 unattractive things.
Sweeping into the mythologies, he shows how civilizations actually decline into polytheism from monotheism, rather than the generally-accepted opposite. He then shows how the Roman empire was "prepared" for the Gospel, and how humankind has never seen an event or movement so breathtaking and changing as the Cross.
By and far one of the finest pieces of Christian literature ever written.
Memorable quotations:
"Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy."
"Now each of these explanations in itself seems to be singularly inadequate; but taken to...more
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 unattractive things.
Sweeping into the mythologies, he shows how civilizations actually decline into polytheism from monotheism, rather than the generally-accepted opposite. He then shows how the Roman empire was "prepared" for the Gospel, and how humankind has never seen an event or movement so breathtaking and changing as the Cross.
By and far one of the finest pieces of Christian literature ever written.
Memorable quotations:
"Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy."
"Now each of these explanations in itself seems to be singularly inadequate; but taken to...more
