Orthodoxy (book)

Orthodoxy is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. In it, Chesterton presents an original view of Christian religion. He sees it as the answer to natural human needs, the "answer to a riddle" in his own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the boundaries of human experience.

Related Topics:
G. K. Chesterton - Christian - Apologetics

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The book is developed as an intellectual quest by a spiritually curious person who is looking for the ultimate truth about the meaning of life and ends up with his own truth, made exactly to fit human needs. "By coincidence", this truth is the same one proposed by Christianity.

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In keeping with this detachment from dogmatic religion, the book has barely any quotation from Scripture or any authoritative statement by a religious authority. It is mostly presented as a free intellectual inquiry by somebody who is looking for an explanation of the mysteries of human existence and wants that explanation to be satisfactory to his own reason.

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