It is a great, popular book, one of the really great books of the century.It met a temporary need and survives as a permanent monument" (Evelyn Waugh). "In that book all his random thoughts are concentrated and refined all his aberrations made straight. The book was a formative influence on many writers in the Catholic Literary Revival including Ronald Knox, Graham Greene, C.S. Chesterton illustrates the theological man of medieval Christendom, "the Whole Man" created in the image of God. Published shortly after Chesterton's long-anticipated conversion to Catholicism in 1923, the Everlasting Man goes beyond the personal spiritual autobiography of Orthodoxy to describe the larger spiritual journey of Western civilization. Item #987 "THE CHURCH IS JUSTIFIED, NOT BECAUSE HER CHILDREN DO NOT SIN, BUT BECAUSE THEY DO"Įarly edition of this influential Chesterton classic-printed for Christmas in the same year as the first edition, complete as issued in the scarce original dust jacket.
Small Christmas presentation inscription (dated "Xmas 1925") to upper blank flyleaf, spotting to edges and preliminary leaves, mild spine toning, short tears and creasing along top margins of rare original dust jacket. Large octavo (9 inches tall), original dark red cloth, original dust wrapper. Wells in his view of history, it is the more right that I should here congratulate him on the courage and constructive imagination which carried through his vast and varied and intensely interesting work but still more on having asserted the reasonable right of the amateur to do what he can with the facts which the specialists provide.London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925. As I have more than once differed from Mr. To suggest this I have not needed to go much beyond matters known to us all I make no claim to learning and have to depend for some things, as has rather become the fashion, on those who are more learned. Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than any sort of Christians and its thesis is 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. It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject, above all this subject, without showing that he is a Catholic but this study is not specially concerned with the differences between a Catholic and a Protestant. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Everlasting Man
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