{"title": "Orthodoxy", "covers": [6268135, 743216, 7209764, 6835662, 8703537, 8535641, 8890017, 8923058, 9111890, 9216470, 10324884, 10673508, 11437916, 11544837, 11951707, 12043947, 12622038, 1029239, 1029308, 7756442, 8703513, 11154491, 13164839, 2965250, 13232354, 13617166, 13703906, 13251246], "subjects": ["Apologetics", "Christianity", "History", "Essence, genius, nature", "Evidence", "Nonfiction", "Religion & Spirituality", "Essays", "Christendom", "Christianisme", "Apologetiek", "Apologetics, history, 20th century", "Chesterton, g. k. (gilbert keith), 1874-1936", "Christianity, essence, genius, nature", "Aplogetics", "Filosofia e religiao", "Apologetica", "Theology", "Philosophy and religion", "Christianity -- Essence, genius, nature", "Ha resie", "Rechtgla ubigkeit", "Literatur", "Discipling (christianity)", "Religion, philosophy", "Religion", "Biography", "Chrze\u015bcija\u0144stwo", "Wiara", "Religia", "Wiara a nauka"], "subject_people": ["G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)"], "key": "/works/OL76350W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL18524A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["20th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": "<p><i>Orthodoxy</i> is <a href=\"https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton\">G. K. Chesterton\u2019s</a> response to his critics\u2019 assertion that his earlier collection of essays, <i><a href=\"https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton/heretics\">Heretics</a></i>, had \u201cmerely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy.\u201d In his intellectual journey from pagan to agnostic to positivist philosopher, he had attempted to build a philosophy \u201csome ten minutes in advance of the truth.\u201d But when he compared his modern philosophy with Christian theology, he realized that he was \u201cthe man who with the utmost daring discovered what had been discovered before.\u201d Thus, <i>Orthodoxy</i> is a work of Christian apologetics, where Chesterton tries to show that Christianity is a universal answer to the everyday needs of humanity, and not just an arbitrary philosophy handed down from on high.</p>", "latest_revision": 32, "revision": 32, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-16T10:05:09.889767"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-02T10:15:22.587002"}}