dangerous idea

A redated post.

In Orthodoxy , his masterly defense of the Christian faith, G.K Chesterton writes: "It is very hard for a man to defend anything of whi...

Compare these two quotes and see what you think.

IT is amusing to notice that many of the moderns, whether sceptics or mystics, have taken as their sign a certain eastern symbol, which is ...

His chapter on Maniacs from Orthodoxy. A Chesterton-Dawkins debate would be a delight to see.

[Shawʼs] latest play,  The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet , has been forbidden by the Censor. As far as I can discover, it has been forbidden ...

HT: Bob Prokop "The next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it. And a particular point of it is ...

All I had hitherto heard of Christian theology had alienated me from it. I was a pagan at the age of twelve, and a complete agnostic by th...

This is the archive of the Chesterton-Blatchford controversy. It doesn't look to me as if he ran into compatibilism in that controversy.

I think there is a profound problem in the discussion of freedom and moral responsibility because I think the idea of desert fits in well ...

G. K. Chesterton called original sin the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.  Certain new theologians dispute orig...

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite ...

HT: Rasmus Moller. "The best reason for a revival of philosophy is that unless a man has a philosophy certain horrible things will happ...