Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton

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Considered by many to be Chesterton's greatest masterpiece of all his writings, this is his whole view of world history as informed by the Incarnation. Beginning with the origin of man and the various religious attitudes throughout history, Chesterton shows how the fulfillment of all of man's desires takes place in the person of Christ and in Christ's Church.

Chesterton propounds the thesis that "those who say that Christ stands side by side with similar myths, and his religion side by side with similar religions, are only repeating a very stale formula contradicted by a very striking fact." And with all the brilliance and devastating irony, so characteristic of his best writing, Chesterton gleefully and tempestuously tears to shreds that "very stale formula" and triumphantly proclaims in vivid language the glory and unanswerable logic of that very striking fact. Here is the genius of Chesterton at its delightful best.

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May 14, 2005: It's a strange thing how society takes so many preconceived notions and makes them out to be facts; and how easily we accept those supposed facts without any reflection. Everlasting Man is an absolutely incredible read that may just challenge the way you think about everything. With his characteristic wit and common sense, Chesterton makes a strikingly beautiful case for Christianity. He transforms the usual into the unusual, and along the way startles the reader into seeing what he knew previously in a new way. '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.' Chesterton knew that it was only through seeing the ordinary in a new way that we experience how truly extraordinary the ordinary is. This was the book that influenced C.S. Lewis; it's not difficult to see why.