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The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
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May 19, 2014

it was amazing
Read from March 01 to October 01, 2015

This is a masterpiece. It is a focused walk through the story of mankind.

I think that I will use this with my beginning scholars as an orientation to world history.

I will forever understand that man always begins in a cave. Chesterton has given me a powerful understanding of why Christ was born in a stable (rather than A field, the woods, a home or a palace).

I have a new confidence and peace and sense of hope for my own time knowing that it is only natural that Christendom will go through a great many evolutions and series of deaths but that it will always have a resurrection.

As Chesterton says, ours is a God who knows His way out of the grave.

Fulton Sheen preached on the same truth as Chesterton does here. For every Good Friday we know Easter Sunday is guaranteed.

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G.K. Chesterton
“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place; and I tried to trace such a journey in a story I once wrote.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

G.K. Chesterton
“Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written. It is only too probable that I shall never write it, so I will use it symbolically here; for it was a symbol of the same truth.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

G.K. Chesterton
“the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it. And a particular point of it is that the popular critics of Christianity are not really outside it. They are on a debatable ground, in every sense of the term. They are doubtful in their very doubts. Their criticism has taken on a curious tone; as of a random and illiterate heckling.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man


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