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Few people had a more profound effect on Christianity in the 20th century than G. K. Chesterton. The Everlasting Man, written in response to an anti-Christian history of humans penned by H.G. Wells, is considered Chesterton’s masterpiece. In it, he explains Christ’s place in history, asserting that the Christian myth carries more weight than other mythologies for one simple reason—it is the truth.

©1953 Oliver Chesterton (P)2003 Recorded Books, LLC Christianity Mythology Middle Ages Morality Ancient History
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I've always enjoyed Chesterton's poetic genius and his bird's eye view perspective on just about everything he puts his mind to. The Everlasting Man is certainly one of his masterpieces. Not only that, it is incredibly relevant for the current modern way the world is going.

Sheer brilliance

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Great performance of an inspiring book. Well worth a listen. Full of things to come back to.

Lovely listen

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Really enjoyed listening to book. Some innovative ideas to think about. Worth listening. Would recommend.

Chesterton at his best

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Fantastically , very informative , so very relevant now, even now here in our 2021

Fantastic book

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A lot of this did not go in but plenty did:
Isn’t this interesting .. Here is GK Chesterton referring to people saying “They write wild and pointless articles and letters in the press about why the churches are empty, without even going there to find out if they are empty, or which of them are empty”.
This book is very surprising, it is more than 100 yrs old yet along with some very intellectual stuff, he also addresses many societal problems that are all around us today.
Here is a portion so applicable to today also: “They call a Parliament of Religions as a reunion of all the peoples; but it is only a reunion of all the prigs. Yet exactly such a pantheon had been set up two thousand years before by the shores of the Mediterranean; and Christians were invited to set up the image of Jesus side by side with the image of Jupiter, of Mithras, of Osiris, of Atys, or of Ammon. It was the refusal of the Christians that was the turning-point of history. If the Christians had accepted, they and the whole world would have certainly, in a grotesque but exact metaphor, gone to pot. They would all have been boiled down to one lukewarm liquid in that great pot of cosmopolitan corruption in which all the other myths and mysteries were already melting. It was an awful and an appalling escape. Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realise that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.”

Everlasting to Everlasting

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