G. K. Chesterton

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G. K. Chesterton

Religious Studies

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Theology

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• Religious Studies

Why Is G. K. Chesterton Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin.

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• chesterton.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With G. K. Chesterton?

G. K. Chesterton is affiliated with the following schools:

• University College London

What Are G. K. Chesterton's Academic Contributions?

G. K. Chesterton has made the following academic contributions:

• William Blake
• The Wisdom of Father Brown
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• The Invisible Man
• The Everlasting Man
• The Common Man
• Orthodoxy
• Manalive
• Irish Impressions
• Four Faultless Felons
• All Things Considered
• What I Saw in America
• Tremendous Trifles
• Tremendous trifles
• The Well and the Shallows
• The Thing: Why I am a Catholic
• The Return of Don Quixote
• The New Jerusalem
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• The Floating Admiral
• The Defendant
• The Club of Queer Trades
• The Ball and the Cross
• Thackeray
• Tennyson
• St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Leo Tolstoy
• Heretics
• Eugenics and other Evils
• Chaucer
• Charles Dickens