Tuesday, April 18, 2006

G.K. Chesterton: The "Colossal Genius" (Links Page)


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So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

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Quotations
Selected Chesterton Utterances (selected by Dave Armstrong)
Aphorisms From G. K. Chesterton's Book Orthodoxy (selected by Dave Armstrong)
Aphorisms From G. K. Chesterton's Book, The Everlasting Man (selected by Dave Armstrong)
Chesterton: a Prophet For Our Times: More Aphorisms (The Illustrated London News) (selected by Dave Armstrong)
G. K. Chesterton: Quotations About Great Men and Women (selected by Dave Armstrong)
G. K. Chesterton on So-Called "Catholic Propaganda" in Literature

Biographical Brief

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the leading literary and apologetic figures in England during the first third of this century. George Bernard Shaw, an atheist, but very good friend of Chesterton's, called him a "colossal genius," no doubt wittily intending a double meaning (Chesterton was quite rotund in later years!). In an anthology by a Protestant publisher, he was described as "the ablest and most exuberant proponent of orthodox Christianity of his time" (1). The great Anglican poet, T.S. Eliot said of him: "He did more, I think, than any man of his time . . . to maintain the existence of the important minority in the modern world" (2). C.S. Lewis, arguably the greatest Christian apologist in the era following Chesterton, and also an Anglican, described reading Chesterton as an atheist in 1925:

    Then I read Chesterton's Everlasting Man and for the first time saw the whole Christian outline of history set out in a form that seemed to me to make sense . . . I already thought Chesterton the most sensible man alive "apart from his Christianity." Now, I veritably believe, I thought that Christianity itself was very sensible "apart from its Christianity." (3)
When asked what Christian writers had helped him, Lewis remarked in 1963, six months before he died, "The contemporary book that has helped me the most is Chesterton's The Everlasting Man." (4)

Chesterton produced nearly a hundred books, including the classics Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday, and biographies of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi. He wrote articles for about 125 periodicals, and was also a talented literary critic, mystery writer, economic and political analyst, social commentator, orator, humorist and poet. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1922.

1. Robert Knille, editor, As I Was Saying: A Chesterton Reader, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1985, 3.
2. In George J. Marlin, editor, The Quotable Chesterton, New York: Doubleday, 1987, xv. "Minority" = Christianity.
3. Surprised by Joy, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955, 223.
4. God in the Dock (edited by Walter Hooper), Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970, 260.
Web Pages / Societies

Introductions and Biographies
Introduction to G.K. Chesterton (Edward Peters)
Introduction to Chesterton (Dr. Ralph Wood)
G.K. Chesterton: Champion of Orthodoxy (Joseph Pearce)
"Who is this guy and why haven’t I heard of him?" (Dale Ahlquist)
G.K. Chesterton: A Starter Course (David Hawkins)
G.K. Chesterton's Conversion Story (edited by Dave Armstrong)
Hear the Voice of the Great G.K. Chesterton (edited by Dave Armstrong; from John Cruickshank's pages; includes three "new" photos)
Chesterton Page Revamped / 80+ Online Books / Rare GKC Photos / Three Caricatures
G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense (Audio files of EWTN TV series with Dale Ahlquist and Chuck Chalberg) (+ Part Two)
The Road to Rome: Chesterton's Spiritual Journey (Adam Schwartz)
G.K. Chesterton (Wikipedia)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Ralph McInerny)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Biography and Many Online Works (The Literature Network)
Biography: GK Chesterton, writer (James Kiefer)
Innocence and Humility (Donald DeMarco)
G.K. Chesterton, the Eccentric Prince of Paradox (J.D. Douglas)
Biographical Brief (American Chesterton Society)
Profiles in Faith (Elesha Coffman)
[One of] The Greatest Authors of All Time (Eric McMillan)
Short Biography (emphasizing GKC's science fiction)
Interview from 1912 (Hugh Lunn)
The Essential Chesterton (David W. Fagerberg)
G.K. Chesterton: Prince of Paradox (Jill Carattini)
Chesterton In a Nutshell: Brief Summaries of Chestertonian Thinking on Various Subjects (compiled by John Peterson and the staff of Gilbert! Magazine)
A Tribute to Chesterton (Photos and Audio Clips)
Biography from the Parish church in Beaconsfield: Chesterton's residence (incl. three rare photos of GKC and one of his gravesite)
Misc. Articles and Essays
A Defense of Amateur Apologetics a la C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton (Dave Armstrong)
On Chesterton (James V. Schall, S.J.; compilation of 22 essays - 278K)
On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters (Hilaire Belloc)
The 'Ample' Man Who Saved My Faith (Philip Yancey)
G.K. Chesterton and The Perils of Being a Complete Thinker (Dale Ahlquist)
G.K. Chesterton and the Use of the Imagination (Dale Ahlquist)
Chesterton's Theology (Dr. Ralph Wood)
Chesterton Aphorisms (Dr. Ralph Wood)
The Wonder of the World: Hannah Arendt, G. K. Chesterton and Ecological Populism (Richard J. Gill)
G.K. Chesterton, the Eccentric Prince of Paradox (J.D. Douglas)
Chesterton's Wit Gives Catholics a Rule of Action (Paul Likoudis)
G.K. Chesterton: fresh and accessible today (interview with Chesterton expert Dale Ahlquist)
Distributivism (many links: Mary De Marco)
CHESTERBELLOC (Ralph McInerny)
THE RELEVANCE OF BELLOC AND CHESTERTON (Joseph Sobran)
CHESTERTON, BELLOC AND THE ACADEMY (Ellen Rice)
Legends and the Chester-Belloc (William C. Van Breda)
Chesterton and English Identity (Patrick Wright [critical] )
G.K. Chesterton: The Theology of Philip Yancey's Favorite Writer (James A. Townsend)
ORTHODOXY: CHESTERTON ON THE "DELIGHT" OF TRUTH (James V. Schall)
HOT WATER AND FRESH AIR (Janet E. Smith)
Gilbert K. Chesterton: A Criticism (Anonymous--attributed to Cecil Chesterton)
On Continuing Chesterton's Legacy (Fr. Ian Boyd)
G.K. Chesterton's Modern Relevance (Daniel C. Peterson and William J. Hamblin)
DIVINE MIRTH (Gerard V. Bradley)
Chesterton-Shaw Debate Speaks to the Present Crisis (Ian Boyd)
G. K. Chesterton, English Notable, agrees with ideals of "Young Confederates" (The Chattanooga News, February 4, 1931)
Chesterton on War (James V. Schall, S.J.)
Advice to Christian Bloggers from G. K. Chesterton (JollyBlogger blog)
G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day on Economics: Neither Socialism nor Capitalism (Mark and Louise Zwick)
Magazine resurrects G.K. Chesterton (Alex Beam)
Chesterton: A Spirit of Vatican II Bibliography (Mark P. Shea; satirical)
Chesterton Reformed: A Protestant Interpretation (James Sauer)
A Sauer Treatment of Chesterton (Tom Jensen)
The Need to Read: G. K. Chesterton (Todd Kappelman)
The Truly Risible Man (by ?)
G. K. Chesterton and Fascism (Robert Fulford)
Professor Defends G.K. Chesterton's Conversion (Kathleen Fedornak)
Examples of GKC Drawings
G.K. Chesterton Picture Archive
The Chesterton Review
Gilbert! the Magazine of G.K. Chesterton
Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review (devoted to GKC, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, MacDonald, Williams, Barfield, Sayers)
Filmography (Internet Movie Database)
Books: Reviews, Summaries, Analysis
Impossible Crime Fiction: GK Chesterton
Digging Up the Future: On GK Chesterton (Novels) (David Langford)
The Case of the Forgotten Detectives: The Unknown Crime Fiction of G.K. Chesterton (John C. Tibbetts)
Review of The Everlasting Man (Fr. Phil Bloom)
The Everlasting Man (Dale Ahlquist)
Review of The Man Who Knew Too Much (Mystery Guide)
Review of The Man Who Was Thursday (Mystery Guide)
Review of The Man Who Was Thursday (BrothersJudd.com)
Review of The Outline of Sanity (Peter Westmore)
Review of The Napoleon of Notting Hill
FATHER BROWN AND COMPANY (James Hitchcock)
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CONVERSION (Robert Miner)
Chesterton's Long-Lost Novel Found (Paul Burnell)
Platitudes Undone (Robert Royal)
CHESTERTON: A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS (Dale Ahlquist)
Review of Daylight and Nightmare; edited by Marie Smith: The Weird Fables and Fancies of G. K. Chesterton (Adam Walter)
Chesterton's Long-Lost Novel Found (Basil Howe) (Paul Burnell)
Daylight & Nightmare: The Weird Fables & Fancies of G.K. Chesterton
Timely Essays on Timeless Paradoxes (book on GKC by James Schall)
Review of The Christian Imagination: G.K. Chesterton on the Arts, by Thomas C. Peters (Carl Olson; scroll down a bit)
Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books by G. K. Chesterton (Adam Walter)
Chesterton 101: A basic, basic course on Chesterton's works
Amazon reviews of Orthodoxy (76 as of 11-07)
Amazon reviews of The Everlasting Man (48 as of 11-07)
Amazon reviews of The Man Who Was Thursday (89 as of 11-07)
Amazon reviews of The Complete Father Brown
Amazon reviews of What's Wrong With the World
Amazon reviews of Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
Amazon reviews of Saint Francis of Assisi
Amazon reviews of Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton
Amazon reviews of The Ball and the Cross
Amazon reviews of The Club of Queer Trades
Amazon reviews of Eugenics and Other Evils
Amazon reviews of Manalive
Amazon reviews of The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Amazon reviews of Heretics
Amazon reviews of Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of GK Chesterton (by Joseph Pearce)
Chesterton's Online Writings: Books

See also:

Exhaustive Bibliography of Materials By and About G.K. Chesterton
and Annotated Chronological Bibiography (Dale Ahlquist)
Books About Chesterton (Dale Ahlquist)
Books by Chesterton (Dale Ahlquist)

G.K.Chesterton's Works on the Web (Martin Ward's compilation)
Author: G. K. Chesterton (Wikisource)

Heretics [htm / htm / pdf]

Orthodoxy [htm / htm / htm / txt / LibriVox Audio Book / speech synthesizer]

The Everlasting Man [htm / htm / htm / C.S. Lewis' comment on]

The Catholic Church and Conversion [htm / htm / txt]

St Francis of Assisi [htm / htm]

St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Dumb Ox" [htm / htm / pdf]

The Thing [htm / txt / pdf]

The Well and the Shallows [htm / txt / pdf]

What's Wrong With the World [htm / htm / pdf / audio book]

The Superstition of Divorce [htm / txt / pdf]

Eugenics and Other Evils [htm / htm / pdf]

Tremendous Trifles [htm / text]
The Outline of Sanity [htm / txt]

Autobiography [htm / txt]

 The Defendant [htm / htm]

All I Survey [htm / txt]

As I Was Saying [htm / txt]

Fancies Versus Fads [htm / txt]

All Things Considered [htm / htm]

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays [htm / txt]

The New Jerusalem [htm / txt]

Charles Dickens [htm / htm / audio book]

Alarms And Discursions [htm / txt]

The Common Man [htm / txt]

The Spice of Life and Other Essays [htm / htm]

 The Apostle and the Wild Ducks [htm / txt]

The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Man Who Was Thursday (htm) (audio book) (speech synthesizer reading) (Mercury theatre dramatization with Orson Welles)
The Club of Queer Trades
The Innocence of Father Brown (htm) (audio book)
The Wisdom of Father Brown (htm) (audio book)
The Incredulity of Father Brown
The Secret of Father Brown (htm)
The Oracle of the Dog (a Father Brown story)
The Blue Cross (a Father Brown story)
A Miscellany of Men
Manalive
The Ball and the Cross
Tales of the Long Bow
The Man Who Knew Too Much (htm) (audio book)
The Trees of Pride (htm)
A Short History of England
The Crimes of England
Greybeards at Play
The Barbarism of Berlin
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
The Victorian Age in Literature
Robert Browning
Robert Louis Stevenson
George Bernard Shaw
Chesterton Day by Day: Selections
The Appetite of Tyranny, Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
Varied Types
William Cobbett
Twelve Types
Irish Impressions
Four Faultless Felons
The Flying Inn
The Complete Father Brown
The Return of Don Quixote
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy
What I Saw in America
William Blake
Thoughts From G.K. Chesterton
Leo Tolstoy
London
Thomas Carlyle
Lord Kitchener
G.F.Watts
Tennyson
The Wild Night and Other Poems
Thackeray
On Running After One's Hat and Other Whimsies
A Miscellany of Poetry
A Shilling For My Thoughts (selections)
The Poet and the Lunatics
Poems
The Return of Christendom
The Ballad of the White Horse

Chesterton's Online Writings: Essays and Excerpts
Inaugural Address of the Philosophical Society, 1926
Conversion to Catholicism: General Observations (from The Catholic Church and Conversion, with portions of the foreword by Hilaire Belloc, and related comments by Jaroslav Pelikan)
Why I Am A Christian
Why I Am A Catholic
Article on Charles Dickens in the 1929 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
Introduction to Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1912)
The Meaning of the Crusade
Social Reform vs. Birth Control
George Macdonald
Humor (Encyclopedia Britannica)
What is America?
On American Morals
Introduction to The Song of Roland (1920)
The Case for Hermits
The Crimes of England
How I Found the Superman
Fairy Tales
French And English
Introduction to The Book of Job
GKC on the Incarnational Character of Christianity
A Ballade Of An Anti-Puritan
Introduction to Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories (by Maksim Gorky)
Songs of Education: III: For the Creche (poem)
The Ballad of the White Horse (poem; alt. URL)
Poems: GK Chesterton (PoemHunter.com)
Distributist Writings
GKC on Detective Stories
Divorce vs. Democracy
GKC on Philosophy
Milton: man and poet
Introduction to the Book of Job
Do We Agree? (a debate [1928] between Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc as moderator)
Mercury Theatre Dramatisation of The Man Who Was Thursday by Orson Welles (27MB MP3 file)
Chesterton Chronological Bibliography
    1900 Greybeards at Play
    1901 The Defendant
    1902 Thomas Carlyle
    1903     Robert Browning
    1903 Tennyson
    1903 Thackeray
    1903 Twelve Types
    1904     The Napoleon of Notting Hill
    1904 G.F. Watts
    1905     The Club of Queer Trades
    1905 Heretics
    1905 Varied Types
    1906     Charles Dickens
    1906 The Wild Night and Other Poems
    1908     The Man Who Was Thursday
    1908 All Things Considered
    1908 Orthodoxy
    1909 Tremendous Trifles
    1909 Magic: A Fantastic Comedy
    1909     The Ball and the Cross
    1910 What's Wrong With the World
    1910 Leo Tolstoy
    1910 William Blake
    1910 George Bernard Shaw
    1911 Alarms and Discursions
    1911The Innocence of Father Brown
    1911 Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
    1912 Manalive
    1912 A Miscellany of Men
    1912 Chesterton Day by Day (selections)
    1913 The Victorian Age in Literature
    1913 Thoughts From G.K. Chesterton
    1914 The Flying Inn
    1914     The Barbarism of Berlin
    1914 The Wisdom of Father Brown
    1914 London
    1914 The Wild Knight
    1915 The Appetite of Tyranny
    1916 A Shilling For My Thoughts (selections)
    1917 Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays
    1917 A Short History of England
    1917 Lord Kitchener
    1917 Poems
    1919 Irish Impressions
    1919 A Miscellany of Poetry
    1920     The Superstition of Divorce
    1920 The New Jerusalem
    1922 Eugenics and Other Evils
    1922 The Man Who Knew Too Much
    1922 What I Saw in America
    1922 The Trees of Pride
    1923 Fancies Versus Fads
    1924     St. Francis of Assisi
    1925 Tales of the Long Bow
    1925 William Cobbett
    1925 The Everlasting Man
    1926 The Incredulity of Father Brown
    1926 The Outline of Sanity
    1926 The Catholic Church and Conversion
    1926 The Return of Don Quixote
    1927     The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton
    1927 The Secret of Father Brown
    1927 The Judgment of Dr. Johnson (limited preview)
    1927 Robert Louis Stevenson
    1928 Generally Speaking (limited preview)
    1929 The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic
    1929 The Poet and the Lunatics
    1930 The Resurrection of Rome (limited preview)
    1930 Four Faultless Felons
    1930 Come to Think of It
    1932 Chaucer (limited preview)
    1933 On Running After One's Hat and Other Whimsies
    1933 All I Survey
    1933     St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Dumb Ox"
    1934 Avowals and Denials
    1935 The Well and The Shallows
    1935 The Scandal of Father Brown (in complete collection)
    1935 The Complete Father Brown
    1936     The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
    1936 Autobiography
    1936 As I Was Saying
    1937 The Man Who Was Chesterton, E Raymond Bond
    1938 The Coloured Lands
    1950 The Common Man
    1964 The Spice of Life and Other Essays
    1975 The Apostle and the Wild Ducks (amazon link)
    1986 The Quotable Chesterton, E G. Marlin et al (amazon link)
    1988 More Quotable Chesterton, George J. Marlin (amazon link)
    2007 As I Was Saying: A Chesterton Reader, Robert Knille (amazon link)
    1915 G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study, Julius West [link to online version]
    1921 Authordoxy: being a discursive examination of Mr. G.K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy", Alan Handsacre [link to online version]
    1922 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Patrick Braybrooke [link to online version]
    1943 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Maisie Ward [link to online version]
    1954 G.K. Chesterton, Christopher Hollis [link to online version]
    1973 G.K. Chesterton: A Biography, Dudley Barker (amazon link)
    1982 The Outline of Sanity, Alzina Stone Dale (limited preview)
    1986 G.K. Chesterton, Michael Ffinch (amazon link)
    1989 The Riddle of Joy, E M. McDonald & A. Tadie (amazon link)
    1997 Wisdom and Innocence: A Biography of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce (limited preview)
    2001 Gilbert: The Man Who Was G.K. Chesterton, Michael Coren (amazon link)
    2003 G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense, Dale Ahlquist (limited preview)
    2006 Common Sense 101: Lessons From G.K. Chesterton, Dale Ahlquist (amazon search feature)
    2006 G.K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward, Stephen R.L. Clark (amazon link)
    2006 Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R./R. Tolkien on the Human Condition, Donald T. Williams (amazon link)
    2008 The Last of the Realists: A Distributist Biography, Harold Robbins (amazon link)


Compiled by Dave Armstrong. Thorough URL Revision: 21 November 2007

Updated 14 October 2008

Posted by Dave Armstrong at 4:51 PM

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