{"id":14346,"date":"2014-09-25T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?p=14346"},"modified":"2015-09-12T18:03:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T22:03:56","slug":"jousting-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/jousting-with-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Jousting with the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[mp_row]<\/p>\n<p>[mp_span col=&#8221;9&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[mp_row_inner]<\/p>\n<p>[mp_span_inner col=&#8221;12&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[mp_heading margin=&#8221;none,none,none,none&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>G.K. Chesterton believed in the Devil before he believed in God.<\/h1>\n<p>[\/mp_heading]<\/p>\n<p>[\/mp_span_inner]<\/p>\n<p>[\/mp_row_inner]<\/p>\n<p>[mp_row_inner]<\/p>\n<p>[mp_span_inner col=&#8221;12&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[mp_code margin=&#8221;15,none,none,none&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>In this follow-up to his earlier book\u00a0<em>The Tumbler\u00a0of God: Chesterton as Mystic<\/em>, Fr. 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