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De eeuwige mens (1925)

door G. K. Chesterton

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Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. Highly influential in C. S. Lewis' conversion from atheism to Christianity, The Everlasting Man continues to inspire new generations of readers.Considered by many to be Chesterton's greatest masterpiece, this book declares his comprehensive view of world history as informed by the Incarnation. Retelling mankind's story from the very beginning, he shows how all human desires are fulfilled in the person of Christ and Christ's church. With his characteristic brilliance and irony, he argues that Christianity is not just a religion to stand beside other religions, for the fact of the Incarnation sets it apart.One of the most original and controversial theological works ever written, The Everlasting Man offers a commanding perspective of world history and aims to restore our sense of wonder in the universe, our God, and ourselves.… (meer)
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Christian apologetics is not my thing. On the other hand, Chesterton could be insightfully witty about ignorant anti-Christians. Like Oscar Wilde, Chesterton seems to write very insubstantially, and his work is best consumed in quotations, rather than in whole-book chunks. I don't think he's quite so precious as Wilde, though.

https://www.chesterton.org advertises a new, thoroughly annotated version of the book. Chesterton was an exceptionally erudite person so some of his allusions, being both erudite and dated, would be incomprehensible to many contemporary readers. ( )
  themulhern | Feb 25, 2024 |
man and God
  SrMaryLea | Aug 22, 2023 |
Princ paradoxu, kolosálny génius, rytier katolicizmu to všetko sú výstižné mená legendárneho Gilberta Keitha Chestertona, anglického novinára, spisovateľa, filozofa a laického teológa, ktorý nikdy neprestal detsky žasnúť nad zázračným ihriskom zvaným svet.
Večný človek je kniha o umení slobodne myslieť. Pomôže vám vymotať sa zo slepých myšlienkových uličiek dnešnej doby napriek tomu, že originál bude čoskoro sláviť storočnicu. Okrem toho je to kniha o nádeji. Na krídlach zdravého rozumu vás zdvihne nad časovú os dejín a dopraje vám výhľad na minulosť, prítomnosť aj budúcnosť. Ale najmä je to kniha o radosti. To, čo uvidíte, je krásne ako rozprávka plná dobrodružstva, zápasu, sĺz a smiechu, ale hlavne dobra, ktoré víťazí.
  Hanita73 | Apr 28, 2022 |
I don't understand how this book continues to get such high ratings and still is being praised. Agreed, it clearly contains 'strokes of genius', insights that were cleverly found on the basis of the information available at the time (1925). So I'm not going to dispute that Chesterton had a very sharp mind. But this book is nearly a century old, which is an insurmountable handicap for a work that claims to offer a history of the world. His passages about prehistoric man and about the earliest civilizations are completely obsolete according to current insights. And Chesterton's language is – and I’ll try to stay polite – very derogatory and sometimes utterly racist: for example, he constantly uses the words 'rude savages' when talking about Australian aborigines, and the infamous n-word also crops up regularly. The whole book, exudes an exclusively white, Eurocentric spirit; you can't really blame Chesterton for being a child of his time, but he’s really laying it on thick. And then there’s his horrible, pedantic style, with a constant ridicule of dissenting opinions, especially those based on scientific research (which, by the way, immediately prompted him to make a slight adjustment in an appendix). Obviously, this is an extremely polemical work, with a single goal: namely jamming it down our throat that with the introduction of Christianity world history has taken a fundamentally different path. I could follow that somewhat philosophically and theologically (but not in the terms Chesterton uses), but historically this just doesn't make sense. I really looked forward to reading this, but unfortunately, it was another disappointment. I don't understand how this book continues to get such high ratings and still is being praised. Agreed, it clearly contains 'strokes of genius', insights that were cleverly found on the basis of the information available at the time (1925). So I'm not going to dispute that Chesterton had a very sharp mind. But this book is nearly a century old, which is an insurmountable handicap for a work that claims to offer a history of the world. His passages about prehistoric man and about the earliest civilizations are completely obsolete according to current insights. And Chesterton's language is – and I’ll try to stay polite – very derogatory and sometimes utterly racist: for example, he constantly uses the words 'rude savages' when talking about Australian aborigines, and the infamous n-word also crops up regularly. The whole book, exudes an exclusively white, Eurocentric spirit; you can't really blame Chesterton for being a child of his time, but he’s really laying it on thick. And then there’s his horrible, pedantic style, with a constant ridicule of dissenting opinions, especially those based on scientific research (which, by the way, immediately prompted him to make a slight adjustment in an appendix). Obviously, this is an extremely polemical work, with a single goal: namely jamming it down our throat that with the introduction of Christianity world history has taken a fundamentally different path. I could follow that somewhat philosophically and theologically (but not in the terms Chesterton uses), but historically this just doesn't make sense. I really looked forward to reading this, but unfortunately, it was another disappointment.
For a view positive remarks, see my History-account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4399439729 ( )
  bookomaniac | Dec 24, 2021 |
I totally agree with his beliefs but the writing was too complicated for me. ( )
  joyfulmimi | Jul 18, 2021 |
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Talking of skulls, I am also aware of the story of the Cro-Magnam[sic] skull that was much larger and finer than a modern skull. It is a very funny story; because an eminent evolutionist, awakening to a somewhat belated caution, protested against anything being inferred from one specimen. It is the duty of a solitary skull to prove that our fathers were our inferiors. Any solitary skull presuming to prove that they were superior is felt to be suffering from swelled head.
Otherwise the two sides of the human mind could never have touched at all; and the brain of man would have remained cloven and double; one lobe of it dreaming impossible dreams and the other repeating invariable calculations.
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Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. Highly influential in C. S. Lewis' conversion from atheism to Christianity, The Everlasting Man continues to inspire new generations of readers.Considered by many to be Chesterton's greatest masterpiece, this book declares his comprehensive view of world history as informed by the Incarnation. Retelling mankind's story from the very beginning, he shows how all human desires are fulfilled in the person of Christ and Christ's church. With his characteristic brilliance and irony, he argues that Christianity is not just a religion to stand beside other religions, for the fact of the Incarnation sets it apart.One of the most original and controversial theological works ever written, The Everlasting Man offers a commanding perspective of world history and aims to restore our sense of wonder in the universe, our God, and ourselves.

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