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GK Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker - The Times

Chesterton (1874-1936)

NOTE: G.K. Chesterton was not a universalist. He is included on this page to show some of his quotes that many may not be aware of.

".Then I read Chesterton's Everlasting Man and for the first time saw the whole Christian outline of history set out in a form that seemed to me to make sense .

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. I already thought Chesterton the most sensible man alive "apart from his Christianity." Now, I veritably believe, I thought that Christianity itself was very sensible "apart from its Christianity." --C.S. Lewis, on reading Chesterton as an atheist in 1925

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer of the early 20th century.

Chesterton was known as the "prince of paradox" because he communicated his conservative, often countercultural, ideas in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. For example: "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that the G. K. Chesterton: A Biography - Anna’s Archive VET