The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare G.

Aesop's Fables a new translation Aesop 2041 downloads.This post originally published at Southern Seminary here. Perhaps a riddle to most, for them it was a life long obsession. Wells may have assumed, but a transcendent joy to be found only in the gospel of Christ. Lewis, â€œThese two claimed to begin with honest minds and concluded there was one thing no honest mind could miss.â€ This one thing was neither ignorance nor pride, as H.G. While it may have seemed improbable, Providence brought these two minds together resulting in a wealth of wisdom for later generations. Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in loveâ€ (Surprised by Joy, 190). It would almost seem that Providence, or some â€œsecond causeâ€ of a very obscure kind, quite overrules our previous tastes when it decides to bring to minds together. It might have been expected that my pessimism, my atheism, and my hatred of sentiment would have made him to me the least congenial of all authors. Â€œI had never heard of him and had no idea of what he stood for nor can I quite understand why he made such an immediate conquest of me. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man.â€ While Chestertonâ€™s impact was lasting, it was initially met with bewilderment: In fact, in response to one writer in 1947 who asked for an apologetics resource, Lewis wrote: â€œAs for books, the very best popular defense of the full Christian position I know is G.K. I, for one, am thankful that he did not.Īmong the multiple influences that shaped Lewisâ€™ conversion to Christianity, Chesterton looms large. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.â€ If Lewis wished to remain an atheist, he should have left Chestertonâ€™s books alone. Lewis recalls the impact of reading The Everlasting Man in Surprised by Joy: â€œIn reading Chesterton â€¦ I did not know what I was letting myself in for.

Lewis, as an atheist, took the latter route, having walked round the whole world Chesterton helped lead him home. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place.â€Ĭ.S. Chesterton opens the book with these words: â€œThere are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there. He published his response in 1925 under the title The Everlasting Man. Chesterton, a literary heavy weight in more ways than one, took issue with Wells. Â€œThe whole moral edifice,â€ Wells said, referring to Christianity, â€œwas built upon false history.â€ If ignorance is the first penalty of pride, perhaps the second is to have oneâ€™s fallacies forever recorded in print. Wells argued that Christianity had collapsed â€œlike a house of cardsâ€ in light of evolutionary theory. Wells in his 1920 work The Outline of Human History. GNORANCE is the first penalty of pride.â€ So wrote H.G.

Chesterton the everlasting man