'But you and all the kind of Christ
Are ignorant and brave,
And you have wars you hardly win
And souls you hardly save.'
The ballad of the white horse

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Chesterton's popularity

I am still not certain how well known Chesterton is in this modern time. On the one hand, he is not infrequently quoted (he is of course a very 'quotable' writer). On the other hand, the local library does not have many of his books and quite some of my acquaintances never heard of him.
I have to admit that I myself barely heard of Chesterton till this fall. Then several things occurred at once (my pastor mentioning Chesterton's books, my realization of Chesterton's influence on C.S. Lewis, and the listing of 'Orthodoxy' on ccel.org's list of Christian classics), and I started reading.

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