I may have finished this book, but I'm not done with it. Nowhere near. I will be thumbing back through my (many) underlined passages to try and retracI may have finished this book, but I'm not done with it. Nowhere near. I will be thumbing back through my (many) underlined passages to try and retrace the whole argument Chesterton makes.
Essentially, Chesterton sets out to prove that "man is not an evolution, but a revolution." And that any effort to dismiss Christianity as just one among many belief systems falls short of truly seeing Christianity as the oddity that it was and is still.
Chesterton has a way of seeing the world that draws my attention to details I'd overlooked or dismissed, raises questions I've never thought to ask, and helps me find the humor in things I might have been tempted to take far too seriously. As with all Chesterton, about 1/3 of the book alludes to names, places, or events that are unfamiliar to me. I can usually still trace the argument (since he typically proves each point with several examples), and I find that the other 2/3 of the book are so incredibly brilliant that it is worth ignoring his examples when they get too specific or assume a level of intimate knowledge with, say, Roman history that I do not have. ...more
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