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Article: Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874-1908.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- July 14, 2009
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Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874-1908.
By William Oddie.
Oxford University Press, 416 pp., $50.00.
G.K. Chesterton is often regarded as a staunch and unwavering apologist for Christianity, a culture-warrior of the right, a rollicking jester who trounced his opponents with incisive paradoxes and witty self-mockery. There is partial truth in this reading, but it is more valid for the older and somewhat repetitive Chesterton than for the younger and far more original writer. William Oddie's fine account of Chesterton's early intellectual formation--as he moved from a life-shaking skepticism to a convinced and ...