G.K. Chesterton
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Heretics
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: ChristianAudio.com
- Publish date: August 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.18(4685 ratings)
Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word “orthodox”. In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the kingdoms of the world and the police and the judges who were heretics. He was orthodox. He had no pride in having rebelled against them; they had rebelled against him. The armies with their cruel security, the kings with their cold faces, the decorous processes of State, the reasonable processes of law–all these like sheep had gone astray. The man was proud of being orthodox, was proud of being right. If he stood alone in a howling wilderness he was more than a man; he was a church. He was the centre of the universe; it was round him that the stars swung. All the tortures torn out of forgotten hells could not make him admit that he was heretical. But a few modern phrases have made him boast of it. He says, with a conscious laugh, “I suppose I am very heretical,” and looks round for applause. The word “heresy” not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word “orthodoxy” not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. All this can mean one thing, and one thing only. It means that people care less for whether they are philosophically right. For obviously a man ought to confess himself crazy before he confesses himself heretical. The Bohemian, with a red tie, ought to pique himself on his orthodoxy. The dynamiter, laying a bomb, ought to feel that, whatever else he is, at least he is orthodox. — Gilbert K. Chesterson
... Read moreInvisible Man
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Length: 41 minutes
- Publisher: ChristianAudio.com
- Publish date: August 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.33(381 ratings)
Listeners will delight in these masterful chronicles of the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced and engagingly innocent, Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-notch detective, possessing that rarest of all gifts – an intuition that never fails.
... Read moreMan Who was Thursday
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: ChristianAudio.com
- Publish date: May 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.82(38590 ratings)
All that G. K. Chesterton’s critics and comrades labeled him – devotional, impious, confounding, intelligent, humorous, bombastic – he wove into The Man Who Was Thursday. This page-turner sends characters bobbing around a delightfully confusing plot of mythic proportions. There are so many twists and turns that soon you’ll be tangled in a story that you cannot put down…even if you’re not entirely sure why! // The Man Who Was Thursday begins when two poets meet. Gabriel Syme is a poet of law. Lucian Gregory is a poetic anarchist. As the poets protest their respective philosophies, they strike a challenge. In the ruckus that ensues the Central European Council of Anarchists elects Syme to the post of Thursday, one of their seven chief council positions. Undercover. On the run. Syme meets Sunday, the head of the council, a man so outrageously mysterious that his antics confound both the law-abiding and the anarchist. Who is lawful? Who is immoral? Such questions are strangely unanswerable in the presence of Sunday. He is wholly other. He is above the timeless questions of humanity and also somehow behind them. // G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was born in London. He matured into one of the great journalists, philosophers, novelists, and personalities of the twentieth century. Chesterton offered inspiration to many others, including his fellow Brit C. S. Lewis. His much-loved works include The Everlasting Man, Saint Francis of Assisi, Orthodoxy, and the Father Brown series of mystery novels.
... Read moreOrthodoxy
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Narrator: G.K. Chesterton
- Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 15, 2011
- Language: English
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4.17(30121 ratings)
Orthodoxy was named as one of Publishers Weekly’s 10 indispensable spiritual classics of the past 1500 years. It is the personal journal of one man’s search for understanding culminating in his conversion to Catholicism. Written with wisdom and wit, G.K. Chesterton captures the very nature of faith
... Read moreOrthodoxy
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 25, 2011
- Language: English
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4.17(36706 ratings)
Written by G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy addresses foremost one main problem: How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? Chesterton writes, “I wish to set forth my faith as particularly answering this double spiritual need, the need for that mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar which Christendom has rightly named romance.” Chesterton likens orthodox Christianity to a man who set out in a boat from England and was quite excited to land on an island only to soon discover he had, in fact, landed on England. “I am the man who with the utmost daring discovered what had been discovered before.” This is Chesterton’s autobiography. It is his story of finding the familiar and unfamiliar in Christianity. It is his hunt for the gorgon or griffin and in the end discovers a rhinoceros and then takes pleasure in the fact that a rhinoceros exists but looks as if it oughtn’t.
In Orthodoxy, Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of “practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome.” Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life.
The Everlasting Man
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Narrator: G.K. Chesterton
- Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 26, 2011
- Language: English
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4.14(6950 ratings)
Few people had a more profound effect on Christianity in the 20th century than G. K. Chesterton. The Everlasting Man, written in response to an anti-Christian history of humans penned by H.G. Wells, is considered Chesterton’s masterpiece. In it, he explains Christ’s place in history, asserting that the Christian myth carries more weight than other mythologies for one simple reason-it is the truth.
... Read moreThe Innocence of Father Brown
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Narrator: G.K. Chesterton
- Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 27, 2008
- Language: English
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3.82(12183 ratings)
One of English literature’s most famous amateur sleuths, the innocent appearing Catholic priest, Father Brown, attacks cases with an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind. The Innocence of Father Brown Mysteries brings you 12 of the most enthralling Father Brown short stories.
... Read moreThe Innocence of Father Brown
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Narrator: Michael Ward
- Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.82(16104 ratings)
This classic detective anthology by GK Chesterton, beloved by both readers and writers of crime fiction alike, narrated here by Michael Ward.
Father Brown is a small, unobtrusive Essex parson, but underneath his wide brimmed hat, lurks one of the finest deductive minds in all England.
Included in this, the first of the Father Brown anthologies, are the following stories:
The Blue Cross
The Secret Garden
The Queer Feet
The Flying Stars
The Invisible Man
The Honour of Israel Gow
The Wrong Shape
The Sins of Prince Saradine
The Hammer of God
The Eye of Apollo
The Sign of the Broken Sword
The Three Tools of Death
This title is fully narrated by Michael Ward.
The Man Who Was Thursday
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Narrator: G.K. Chesterton
- Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 15, 2011
- Language: English
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3.82(18 ratings)
Writing in England at the turn of the 20th century, G.K. Chesterton was dubbed the “prince of paradox” for addressing serious questions with his light, whimsical style. In this classic allegory, which has captivated generations since it was first published in 1908, Chesterton tackles such profound concepts as honor, truth, and God with insightful humor and colorful enigma. The seven members of the secret Central Anarchist Council are sworn to destroy the world. For security reasons, each member has named himself after a day of the week. But Thursday is not at all whom he appears to be. Instead of a revolutionary young poet, he has been unmasked as a Scotland Yard detective. Now the other six anarchists are in a state of chaos and can’t trust anyone.
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