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Heretics
Cover of the first edition
AuthorG. K. Chesterton
LanguageEnglish
GenreChristian apologetics, philosophy

Publication date

1905
Publication placeUnited Kingdom

Heretics is a collection of 20 essays by English writer G. K. Chesterton published by John Lane in 1905.[1] In it, Chesterton quotes at length and argues extensively against atheist Joseph McCabe and delivers diatribes about his close personal friend and intellectual rival George Bernard Shaw, as well as about Friedrich Nietzsche, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and an array of other major intellectuals of his day, many of whom he knew personally. His topics range from cosmologytoanthropologytosoteriology, and he argues against French nihilism, German humanism, English utilitarianism, the syncretism of "the vague modern", Social Darwinism, eugenics, and the arrogance and misanthropy of the European intelligentsia. Together with Orthodoxy (1908), this book is regarded as central to Chesterton's corpus of moral theology.

Chapters[edit]

  1. Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
  2. On the Negative Spirit
  3. On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
  4. Mr. Bernard Shaw
  5. Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants
  6. Christmas and the Esthetes
  7. Omar and the Sacred Vine
  8. The Mildness of the Yellow Press
  9. The Moods of Mr. George Moore
  10. On Sandals and Simplicity
  11. Science and the Savages
  12. Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
  13. Celts and Celtophiles
  14. On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
  15. On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set
  16. On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity
  17. On the Wit of Whistler
  18. The Fallacy of the Young Nation
  19. Slum Novelists and the Slums
  20. Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pearce, Joseph (2006). Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief. Ignatius Press. p. xi. ISBN 1586171593.

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