Key insights from
Orthodoxy
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Published Jan 14, 2020
What you'll learn
G.K. Chesterton is considered one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century. He wrote that he was a pagan at age 12 and an agnostic by 16. Orthodoxy is the story of how—to his own surprise—his sophisticated doubts and objections brought him to an ancient faith.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Christianity offers the thrill of adventure and the comfort of a welcome home simultaneously.
- 2 For most of our history, the existence of evil was taken for granted; its existence is now up for debate.
- 3 It’s not the overly imaginative, but those with an underdeveloped imagination who are most vulnerable to insanity.
- 4 More dangerous than the vices that have been unleashed in the modern era are the virtues.
- 5 Orthodoxy is not stale, but vivifying, a story of narrowly avoiding trite heresies at every turn.
- 6 Christianity’s plausibility shows up in the very same arguments agnostics use to rule it out.
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