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Chesterton : The Nightmare Goodness of God /
The literary giant G.K. Chesterton is often praised as the""Great Optimist""--God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's darker vision of the world and those w...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waco, Tex. :
Baylor University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Man as holy monster: Christian humanism, evolution, and orthodoxy
- Patriotism and the true patria : distributism, hymns, and Christendom in Dublin
- Militarism and the church militant : Lepanto, defense of World War I, and the truce of Christmas
- Waning of the west and the threat of Islam : the new Jerusalem and the Flying Inn
- Tyrannical tolerance and ferocious hospitality : the ball and the cross
- Bane and blessing of civilization : torture, democracy, and the ballad of the white horse
- Nightmare mystery of divine action : the man who was Thursday.