Orthodoxy

A personal search for truth becomes a spirited defense of Christian faith.

A pagan at only twelve and totally agnostic by sixteen, Chesterton had the remarkable experience of developing a personal, positive philosophy that turned out to be orthodox Christianity. Orthodoxy, his account of it all, has not lost its force as a timeless argument for the simple plausibility of traditional Christianity.

C. S. Lewis and many other emerging Christian thinkers have found this book a pivotal step in their adoption of a credible Christian faith. This intellectual and spiritual autobiography combines simplicity with subtlety in an apologetic that appeals to readers facing the same materialism and antisupernaturalism as did the man at war with his times.

Written when Chesterton was thirty-four, Orthodoxy tells in his distinctive prose of his discovery that orthodoxy is the only satisfactory answer to the perplexing riddle of the universe. It brings together his philosophy and deeply religious faith.