Orthodoxy

Chesterton's classic explanation of the essentials of the Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief. Written in 1908, it displays all the intellectual clarity and literary skill of one of this century's greatest and most thoughtful authors. 'He is as much a political writer as George Orwell. Politics, in the narrow, as well as the widest, sense, informs and inspires his writing, which is why he remained all his life a journalist, to the despair of those who recognized the enormous scale of his gifts. But that is what Chesterton wanted to be, a 'jolly journalist'...because he thought his message important, and from Fleet Street it could reach the people who needed it most, and who perhaps had the best chance of understanding it.'—P.J. Kavanagh