Summary: <p><strong>Gilbert Keith Chesterton</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Commander_with_Star_of_the_Order_of_St_Gregory_the_Great" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">KC*SG</a> (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">philosopher</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_theologian" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lay theologian</a>, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">paradox</a>".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Time</em></a> magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#cite_note-Time-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a></p><p>Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Brown" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Father Brown</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#cite_note-Father_Brown_on_Chesterton,-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[5]</a> and wrote on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">apologetics</a>. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodoxy_(book)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Orthodoxy</em></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Everlasting_Man" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Everlasting Man</em></a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#cite_note-Time-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDouglas1974-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[6]</a> Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodoxy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"orthodox"</a>Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Catholicism</a>, eventually converting to Catholicism from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Catholicism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">High Church</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anglicanism</a>. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Arnold" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matthew Arnold</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Newman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Henry Newman</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Ruskin</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKer2011485-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[7]</a> - Bio via Wikipedia</p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
