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Christopher Hitchens’ Dying Days With G. K. Chesterton 1 – Ralph C. Wood
To Hitchens’ complaint that Chesterton’s Christian humor is shallow, one can only wonder whether he may have had a native incapacity for plumbing the depths, an invincible ignorance about ultimate...
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Christopher Hitchens’ Dying Days With G. K. Chesterton 2 – Ralph C. Wood
Many leading literary figures of the day, from Henry James to T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, acknowledged that the so-called “Great War” constituted a tectonic cataclysm in Western moral and religious...
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Christopher Hitchens’ Dying Days With G. K. Chesterton 3 – Ralph C. Wood
The church’s living tradition insures that its doctrines do not become fixed and static. For Chesterton as for Newman, Christian doctrine stays the same by changing. It remains true to itself precisely...
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Christopher Hitchens’ Dying Days With G. K. Chesterton 4 – Ralph C. Wood
Chesterton’s understanding of human existence is as unsentimental as it is profound. He envisions the invisible and unknowable God as having assumed human form in Jesus Christ — the Lord who drank the...
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