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The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.
Genre: religion
This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject, above all this subject, without showing that he is a Catholic; but this study is not specially concerned with the differences between a Catholic and a Protestant. Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than any sort of Christians; and its thesis is that those who say that Christ stands side by side with similar myths, and his religion side by side with similar religions, are only repeating a very stale formula contradicted by a very striking fact. To suggest this I have not needed to go much beyond matters known to us all; I make no claim to learning; and have to depend for some things, as has rather become the fashion, on those who are more learned. As I have more than once differed from Mr. H. G. Wells in his view of history, it is the more right that I should here congratulate him on the courage and constructive imagination which carried through his vast and varied and intensely interesting work; but still more on having asserted the reasonable right of the amateur to do what he can with the facts which the specialists provide.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:27:30) Chapter 2
(01:06:34) Chapter 3
(01:45:18) Chapter 4
(02:48:31) Chapter 5
(03:32:59) Chapter 6
(04:10:40) Chapter 7
(05:02:52) Chapter 8
(05:36:42) Chapter 9
(06:11:56) Chapter 10
(06:52:08) Chapter 11
(07:26:40) Chapter 12
(07:54:52) Chapter 13
(08:36:17) Chapter 14
(09:17:31) Chapter 15
(09:45:10) Chapter 16
(10:07:40) Chapter 17
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The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.
Genre: religion
This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject, above all this subject, without showing that he is a Catholic; but this study is not specially concerned with the differences between a Catholic and a Protestant. Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than any sort of Christians; and its thesis is that those who say that Christ stands side by side with similar myths, and his religion side by side with similar religions, are only repeating a very stale formula contradicted by a very striking fact. To suggest this I have not needed to go much beyond matters known to us all; I make no claim to learning; and have to depend for some things, as has rather become the fashion, on those who are more learned. As I have more than once differed from Mr. H. G. Wells in his view of history, it is the more right that I should here congratulate him on the courage and constructive imagination which carried through his vast and varied and intensely interesting work; but still more on having asserted the reasonable right of the amateur to do what he can with the facts which the specialists provide.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:27:30) Chapter 2
(01:06:34) Chapter 3
(01:45:18) Chapter 4
(02:48:31) Chapter 5
(03:32:59) Chapter 6
(04:10:40) Chapter 7
(05:02:52) Chapter 8
(05:36:42) Chapter 9
(06:11:56) Chapter 10
(06:52:08) Chapter 11
(07:26:40) Chapter 12
(07:54:52) Chapter 13
(08:36:17) Chapter 14
(09:17:31) Chapter 15
(09:45:10) Chapter 16
(10:07:40) Chapter 17
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