Lecture 77: The Common Man
A Collection of Essays from Various Sources
Month: December 2010
Lecture 76: The End of the Armistice
Essays from G.K.’s Weekly that Prophesied World War II
Lecture 75: The Coloured Lands
A Collection of Poems, Drawings, and Stories
Lecture 74: The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
Detective Stories Featuring Mr. Pond
Lecture 73: Autobiography
Chesterton’s Final Book
Lecture 72: Chesterton’s First Book?
Chesterton’s Ghost-Written Book About an Explorer in New Guinea
Lecture 71: As I Was Saying
Essays from The Illustrated London News
Lecture 70: The Well and the Shallows
The Sequel to “The Thing”
Lecture 69: The Scandal of Father Brown
The Final Collection of the Padre Problem-Solver
Lecture 68: Avowals and Denials
Essays from The Illustrated London News
Lecture 67: St. Thomas Aquinas
The Best Book Ever Written on St. Thomas Aquinas
Lecture 66: All I Survey
Essays from The Illustrated London News
Lecture 65: Christendom in Dublin
Chesterton’s Account of Attending the World Eucharistic Conference in 1932
Lecture 64: Sidelights on New London and Newer York
Essays that Include Accounts of Chesterton’s Second Trip to America
Lecture 63: Chaucer
Literary Criticism About One of the Giants of English Literature
Lecture 62: All is Grist
Essays from The Illustrated London News
Lecture 61: The Resurrection of Rome
Chesterton’s Account of His Trip to Rome in 1929
Lecture 60: Come to Think of It
Essays from The Illustrated London News
Lecture 59: Four Faultless Felons
Detective Stories with a Twist
Lecture 58: GKC as MC
37 Introductions by Chesterton to Other Books
Lecture 57: The Thing
Subtitled: “Why I Am A Catholic”
Lecture 56: The Poet and the Lunatics
Detective Stories Featuring Gabriel Gale
Lecture 55: Generally Speaking
A Collection of Essays from The Illustrated London News
Lecture 54: Robert Louis Stevenson
Chesterton’s Analysis of the Famous Scottish Writer
Lecture 53: The Judgment of Dr. Johnson
Chesterton’s Play About the Great Samuel Johnson
Lecture 52: The Secret of Father Brown
The Fourth in the Collection of Mysteries Featuring the Man in Cloth
Lecture 51: The Collected Poems
Political Poems Written by a Patriot
Lecture 50: The Return of Don Quixote
Chesterton’s Last Novel
Lecture 49: The Catholic Church and Conversion
Chesterton’s Reflections on Conversion in General
Lecture 48: The Queen of Seven Swords
Poetry About the Blessed Virgin Mary
Lecture 47: The Outline of Sanity
The Textbook for Distributism
Lecture 46: The Incredulity of Father Brown
The Third Collection of Stories Featuring the Clerical Sleuth
Lecture 45: William Cobbett
An Introduction to One of Chesterton’s Heroes
Lecture 44: The Everlasting Man
Chesterton’s Great Book of Apologetics
Lecture 43: Tales of the Long Bow
Chesterton’s “Distributist Novel”
Lecture 42: Superstitions of the Sceptic
A Debate with G.G. Coulton, Who Totally Misunderstands the Middle Ages
Lecture 41: St. Francis of Assisi
The Best Book Ever Written on St. Francis
Lecture 40: Fancies vs. Fads
Essays from Diverse Sources
Lecture 39: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Detective Stories Featuring Horne Fisher
Lecture 38: The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Poems
Chesterton’s Lesser-Known Epic Poem
Lecture 37: What I Saw in America
Chesterton’s Account of His 1921 Trip to America
Lecture 36: Eugenics and Other Evils
The Case Against a Scientifically-Designed Society
Lecture 35: The New Jerusalem
Chesterton’s Account of His Trip to the Holy Land
Lecture 34: The Uses of Diversity
Essays from Various Sources
Lecture 33: The Superstition of Divorce
Chesterton’s Prophetic Views About Marriage and Family
Lecture 32: Irish Impressions
Chesterton’s First Major Trip to Ireland
Lecture 31: Utopia of Usurers
Social Criticism
Lecture 30: A Short History of England
Chesterton’s Complete and Cohesive Story of England
Lecture 29: The Appetite of Tyranny
World War 1 Propaganda
Lecture 28: Collected Poems
How Lepanto Found Its Way Into Print
Lecture 27: The Wisdom of Father Brown
The Second Collection of the Priest-Detective
Lecture 26: The Flying Inn
A Rollicking Novel About Prohibition, Filled with Drinking Songs
Lecture 25: Magic
Chesterton’s First Major Play
Lecture 24: The Victorian Age in Literature
Literary Criticism of Nineteenth-Century English Writers
Lecture 23: A Miscellany of Men
Essays from The Daily News
Lecture 22: Manalive
The Story of the Irrepressible Innocent Smith
Lecture 21: The Ballad of the White Horse
The Last Great Epic Poem in the English Language
Lecture 20: The Innocence of Father Brown
The First Collection of Father Brown Stories
Lecture 19: Appreciations and Criticisms
Introductions to Each of Charles Dickens’ Novels
Lecture 18: William Blake
A Masterful Exploration of the Eighteenth-Century Mystic
Lecture 17: Alarms and Discursions
Essays from The Daily News
Lecture 16: What’s Wrong with the World
The Title Says it All
Lecture 15: The Ball and the Cross
The Story of a Duel and a Debate
Lecture 14: Tremendous Trifles
Essays Originally from The Daily News
Lecture 13: George Bernard Shaw
A Thorough Analysis of Shaw
Lecture 12: Orthodoxy
The Timeless Defense of Christianity
Lecture 11: All Things Considered
Essays on “All Things”
Why I Believe in Christianity
I will try and explain why I think a religious philosophy necessary and why I think Christianity the best religious philosophy.
Why I Am A Catholic
The Church is not merely armed against the heresies of the past or even of the present, but equally against those of the future, that may be the exact opposite of those of the present.
Skepticism and Spiritualism
An impartial person is a good judge of many things, but not of all. He is not (for instance) a good judge of what it feels like to be partial.
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas confronts other creeds of good and evil, without at all denying evil, with a theory of two levels of good.
The Religious Aim of Education
The deepest of all desires for knowledge is the desire to know what the world is for and what we are for.
Miracles and Modern Civilisation
For, obviously, the mere fact that a thing happens seldom, under odd circumstances and with no explanation within our knowledge, is no proof that it is against natural law.
Introduction to the Book of Job
The modern habit of saying, “This is my opinion, but I may be wrong” is entirely irrational.
Buddhism and Christianity
It is no disgrace to Christianity, it is no disgrace to any great religion, that its counsels of perfection have not made every single person perfect.