Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.

Genre: religion

In Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton sets out to explain how he came to embrace historic Christian belief - not as a dry system of doctrines, but as a living vision of reality that makes sense of wonder, morality, and human experience. Writing with wit and paradox, Chesterton retraces an intellectual journey that begins with a desire to defend the ordinary joys of life and ends in a challenge to the fashionable ideas of his age: skepticism, relativism, and the notion that modern thought is necessarily more liberated than older faith. Along the way he examines the strange balance he finds at the heart of Christianity - a creed that is both demanding and joyful, both mystical and practical, both humble and heroic. Through vivid analogies and sharp social observation, he argues that the deepest truths are often the ones hiding in plain sight, and that sanity itself may depend on accepting limits as well as freedom. Part memoir, part cultural critique, and part spiritual argument, Orthodoxy invites listeners to reconsider what they assume about belief, doubt, and the meaning of being fully alive.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:52) Chapter 02

(00:36:15) Chapter 03

(01:01:20) Chapter 04

(01:24:54) Chapter 05

(01:46:51) Chapter 06

(02:10:23) Chapter 07

(02:47:43) Chapter 08

(03:07:21) Chapter 09

(03:33:56) Chapter 10

(04:11:03) Chapter 11

(04:36:21) Chapter 12

(05:12:12) Chapter 13

(05:42:06) Chapter 14

(06:08:29) Chapter 15

(06:29:08) Chapter 16

(06:44:50) Chapter 17

(07:09:35) Chapter 18

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