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Chesterton: Introduction to the Book of Job

Chesterton: Introduction to the Book of Job

A perhaps unexpected source of my style of book criticism, and how I understand popular adventure stories, can be found in G. K. Chesterton's essay "Introduction to the Book of Job". This is an explicitly theological investigation of one of the most mysterious and allusive books

WBH Digest 2023-10-13: Pay Me XM Denarii or I'll...

WBH Digest 2023-10-13: Pay Me XM Denarii or I'll...

This is a useful contrast between G. K. Chesterton and H. P. Lovecraft. The word "absurd" means very different things in their works. JD Cowan writes about Quake. That game has a special place in my heart, as it was my real introduction to the internet. I played

The Long View 2008-02-21: Campus Lockdown; Times misfire; Spengler Meets John Brown; Gerson and Providence; Vox Day Blast

John J. Reilly makes the excellent point that as beloved and influential as C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton are, most of their work is between 60 and 100 years old, and the obsessions of the broader culture have changed quite a bit in the intervening decades. Apologetics must

The Contemplative Life -- Pt. II

It took me a couple of weeks to finally paint in all the corners I needed to repost John Reilly's review of St. Teresa's The Interior Castle. Sure, I could have just slapped it up here, but I like to preserve the web of links John

The Long View 2003-07-17: More on Chesterton & Harry Potter

It is a fun thought experiment to imagine what G. K. Chesterton would have said about the Iraq War of 2003. John was right to note that Chesterton was no kind of pacifist. After all, he wrote a poem commemorating the Battle of Lepanto. However, he also had a fierce

The Long View 2003-07-14: All Uranium, All the Time

One of the things I appreciate John for to this day is explaining exactly why children's literature like J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series really are pretty harmless, in comparison to actual ritual magic. John also had enough empathy to understand why well-meaning parents might be

Penny Dreadfuls

Now this is the kind of reading I can get behind! The Essential Man’s Library: 50 Fictional Adventure Books Edition A lot of these books are probably terrible, and of no redeeming social importance, but I love them anyway. G. K. Chesterton did too, and he wrote a defense