Genre: Nonfiction—Religion, Philosophy, & Christian Apologetics
Completed: 11 June 2012
Summary & Review:
After dismantling many of the popular social
theories of his day in Heretics, English
philosopher G.K. Chesterton uses Orthodoxy
to explain why he has found Christianity to be the most complete and perfect
ideology in world history. He uses the chapters to show how piece by piece he
came to recognize the truth of this ancient religion.
Despite
this book not being terribly long, it took me an extremely long time to finish.
I thought Chesterton was an engaging writer, and pieces of the book were very
interesting, so I am not sure why it felt like such a slog to get through.
Wrong book for the wrong mood, I guess. Regardless of how long it took me to
get through, I am still glad I read the book and thought there were some
valuable pieces of wisdom contained within. The main drawback was that much of
Chesterton’s reasoning was in response to very specific people or theories of
his time, which today are no longer in style anyway.
Rating: 6.5
I hope you can get into your next book more! Sorry it took so long to read and didn't up your page count very much :)
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