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Heretics / Orthodoxy: Nelson's Royal Classics

This volume brings together two books by G.K. Chesterton, written in the early twentieth century. The first, Heretics, responds to the mistaken doctrines Chesterton saw spreading among his contemporaries, returning to the basic principles of belief. The second, Orthodoxy, is often read as a record of his own spiritual journey, as he works out why he came to hold the Christian faith.

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Taken together, the two works set out the central convictions of Christianity and present the faith as a living experience rather than a list of abstract ideas. They speak to anyone who wants to think seriously about belief and about the world it is meant to explain.

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adult
Length
medium · 311 pages

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