{"product_id":"heretics-chesterton-cluny","title":"Heretics (Cluny Media)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 226 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor a work of philosophical criticism,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeretics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econcludes on a surprising note: “There are no rationalists,” G. K. Chesterton declares. “We all believe fairy-tales and live in them.” Like so many things Chestertonian, the remark appears fanciful, but is in fact mortally serious. The foundation for this remark in particular is the series of essays which constitutes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeretics\u003c\/i\u003e: investigations of men whose viewpoints and doctrines have “the hardihood to differ” from Chesterton’s. With all the ebullience and brashness typical of its author,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeretics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econtends with such giants of twentieth-century thought as Joseph McCabe and Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, and Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Darwin, and their ideological progeny—atheism, militarism, vitalism (the philosophy of the “life force”), scientism, nihilism, and evolutionism—and the expansive effects of their power and influence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eTruths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(G. K. Chesterton)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFirst appearing in 1905, three years before the universally acclaimed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeretics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eserves as both proof of the colossal reason and wit of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and an eloquent preamble to his humble faith in the ultimate paradox which is also the ultimate truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185744048409,"sku":"HERETICS-CM","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/6130HGoG3WL._SL1500.jpg?v=1775014657","url":"https:\/\/www.fidelitybooks.com.au\/products\/heretics-chesterton-cluny","provider":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","version":"1.0","type":"link"}