G. K. Chesterton.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer,[2] philosopher, Lay Theologian, and Literary and Art Critic. He has been referred to as the “Prince of Paradox”.[3]
Time Magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out”.[4]
Chesterton created the fictional Priest-Detective, Father Brown,[5] 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.[4][6]
Time Magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out”.[4]
Chesterton created the fictional Priest-Detective, Father Brown,[5] 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.[4][6]
Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.[7]
“He was importantly and consistently on the side of the Angels. Behind the Johnsonian fancy-dress, so reassuring to the British public, he concealed the most serious and revolutionary designs — concealing them by exposure . . . Chesterton’s social and economic ideas . . . were fundamentally Christian and Catholic.
“He did more, I think, than any man of his time — and was able to do more than anyone else, because of his particular background, development and abilities as a public performer — to maintain the existence of the important minority in the modern World.
“He leaves behind a permanent claim upon our loyalty, to see that the work that he did in his time is continued in ours”.[8]