Introduction to G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy

Mr. Dale Ahlquist EWTN personage and President of the American Chesterton Society presents an introduction and overview of G.K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy"

[@stiggywiggyable]

The first time I read it, it was as though every previous book I had ever written was in black and white compared to this one in technicolor.

[@FairyPrincessNinja]

I just bought the book, I am underlining and highlighting in the book, and still find I’m struggling with it. I am so glad I found this video. Thank you!

[@Zernlakatka]

Thank you for these videos. They let me understand the books much better!

[@maryannchaisson6742]

12/2019...Still true, beautiful and helpful to readers of Chesterton. Thanks 🇨🇦🙏👏

[@johnnywilley8522]

Great lecture, I especially love his Enthusiasm.

[@Louis.R]

thanks Dale, great missionary work for GK

[@autumnbrooke7910]

superb. thank you for sharing.

[@billmoxon9506]

Thank you for this video!! I've been looking for videos just like this before I begin reading Chesterton for myself. I had to read Mere Christianity several times before I really started appreciating it, I'm expecting Chesterton to be even more challenging to understand well.

[@shadetreemech290]

It will be.

[@frederickanderson1860]

Even miracles are taken for granted.

[@patriciarobles4099]

Excelente

[@junacebedo888]

The only book you need if you are stranded on an island

[@johnwright1447]

Chesterton himself, when asked what one book he would wish with him when stranded on an island, answered 'A Practical guide to Boatbuilding'

[@billmoxon9506]

Maybe, but only if one knows the Bible very well before one sets out to sea!

[@winstonbarquez9538]

Two kinds of madness then are idealism and skepticism?

[@daneryan7424]

Indeed they are, both ways of not looking firmly and faithfully at reality.

[@pagantree]

Materialism is also a form of Madness according to chesterosn also

[@noabaak]

You came from Hollywood to America!

[@frederickanderson1860]

Imagine going through the horrors of the 1st& 2nd world war's, and not be unaffected by it . Romanticism sure is not the answer.

[@antidepressant11]

is this guy too conservative? dale I mean

[@emant9760]

Why do you say that?

[@antidepressant11]

@@emant9760 he lives in the past?

[@emant9760]

@@antidepressant11 His expertise is someone from 1900. What do you expect? But we know the past so we can bring it to bear on the future. In Orthodox, Chesterton said one can't be conservative in keeping a mailbox white as it will erode. One has to continually repaint the mailbox. So Dale is trying to paint our times with Chesterton's thinking. I for one am thankful to have such thinking help me.

[@matthewstokes1608]

Antidepressent11 - … Was Christ? Christ is not a myth - He is absolute factual History. It’s 2022. But only because He started time in the year Zero. Think about it. Mindblowing. Only the miracle is real

[@gerardocardenas6591]

Was Jesus fully a man? Would this mean that at some point he was a dirty sinner as any real man can be?

[@fredgillespie5855]

Gerardo Cárdenas - Jesus gave up being God, was born a human the same as the rest of us, was tempted in all things just as we are yet sinned not. John ch.1: - Hebrews ch.4:15

[@gerardocardenas6591]

Thx for your answer. If Jesus “sinned not”, he lacked a very important experience of human nature which is to fail, to make mistakes. It would have been very instructive to see how the son of God handled such a situation.

[@eriklucasmusic]

@@gerardocardenas6591 God would not be God if he failed, logically speaking.

[@itamorales6580]

@@gerardocardenas6591 it's a good point, Jesus experienced mistakes as a carpenter he could made a measuring mistake, but never broke any God's commandments. In our generation we call mistakes to disobedience because we don't have a objective Law , for instance a man who ia unfaithful to his wife, he thinks, I made a mistake , but in reality he broke his vows before God.

[@johnwright1447]

Christ was fully man, yes, just as was Adam before the Fall. It is we who are not fully men, for sin has dirtied us, and taken the fullness of manhood away.