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Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy

The Making of GKC, 1874-1908
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On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose thought was to be classed with that Burke, Butler, Coleridge, and John Henry Newman. When Chesterton died in 1936, T. S. Eliot pronounced that 'Chesterton's social and economic ideas were the ideas for his time that were fundamentally Christian and Catholic'. But how did he come by these ideas? Eliot noted that he attached 'significance also to his development, to his beginnings as well as to his ends, and to the movement from one to the other'. It is on that development that this book is focused. Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy is an exploration of G.K. Chesterton's imaginative and spiritual development, from his early childhood in the 1870s to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the twentieth century. William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings, to reveal the writer in his own words. In the first major study of Chesterton to draw on this source material, Oddie charts the progression of Chesterton's ideas from his first story (composed at the age of three and dictated to his aunt Rose) to his apologetic masterpiece Orthodoxy, in which he openly established the intellectual foundations on which the prolific writing of his last three decades would build. Part One explores the years of Chesterton's obscurity; his childhood, his adolescence, his years as a student and a young adult. Part Two examines Chesterton's emergence on to the public stage, his success as one of the leading journalists of his day, and his growing renown as a man of letters. Written to engage all with an interest in Chesterton's life and times, Oddie's accessible style ably conveys the warmth and subtlety of thought that delighted the first readership of the enigmatic GKC.

Author Biography:

William Oddie is a former editor of The Catholic Herald, and author of a number of books, including Dickens and Carlyle and The Roman Option. After a late conversion from lifelong atheism, he was ordained an Anglican clergyman in 1977 at the age of 38. He subsequently held roles as chaplain to postgraduate students at Oxford University, as priest-librarian of Pusey House, as fellow of St Cross College, Oxford and as a parish priest. In 1987 he became a full-time journalist, writing regularly for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, and The Daily Mail. In 1991 he was received into the Catholic Church.
Release date Australia
November 6th, 2008
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
416
Dimensions
161x241x29
ISBN-13
9780199551651
Product ID
2710727

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