G. K. Chesterton

If you are a mystery fan, you might wish to tackle Chesterton’s Father Brown series. This is a series of a priest who is able to solve crimes because he takes original sin seriously and knows the heart of a sinner. They are not overtly religious but they are very mixed in quality. These short stories were collected in five books of which the first, The Innocence of Father Brown, is the best. Try these and if you like them, you can move on the others. And if you are going to read…

esop’s Fables Introduction: Aesop’s fables are known throughout the literary world. I can say that I know as much as the next person about fables. They have a universal theme, relatable characters, and an easy to follow storyline, but I only know that much. I never really knew the origin or basic history of fables. I knew the origin is difficult to trace due to the fact that they have been told for many generations. Fables were a big part of my childhood. They helped reinforce the right and…

in the same way in the future time. Oliver Twist is one of the first novels from Dickens's literary works. This novel was very successful since its first edition even though critics do not list it as one of the most valuable works of Dickens. (Chesterton, G, K. 2011) Probably the best-known of all Dickens' works, Oliver Twist was originally published in April of 1839 as a serial, and demanded to bring the public's attention to various contemporary social evils, including the workhouse, child…

A detective – the one who solves the mystery of a crime, clever, wise, and knowledgeable. Yet detectives are not always the obvious type, as is exemplified by a both a novel and a series of short stories. In G. K. Chesterton’s Favorite Father Brown Stories, the wise detective is not a usual detective. As implied by his name, Father Brown was an English village priest in the 19th or 20th century, who ended up being the one to solve or lead another to solving a crime or finding the criminal.…

that power is growing, that resistance is overcome” (The Antichrist 1888). His boundary limits you to only do that which benefits you. Did he honestly believe life was a struggle for power, and that charity and altruism were a detriment? G.K. Chesterton points out that if Nietzsche honestly believed life was a struggle for power, he wouldn’t be showing the world. He wouldn’t be alerting the enemy to the battle. To tell others that life’s greatest virtue is selfishness is to be unselfish…

important question in the world. Out of the two, one of them had a stronger case for his worldview. Despite Sigmund Freud for giving strong counterarguments against C.S. Lewis 's worldview, C.S. Lewis made the stronger case for his worldview because Chesterton influenced him, he questioned the New Testament, and figured so many people in his life believed in God. C.S. Lewis for most of his early life thought that God did not exist but then certain events…

Joseph Gold explains that Pip’s first awareness of “the identity of things” in the graveyard on Christmas Eve is an outstanding English illustration “of the most ancient questions, ‘who am I?’ and ‘why am I here?’” (242). In Pip’s search for a meaningful identity, Dickens has incorporated the desire of all humanity to understand its existence and find a place in the world. Because Dickens allows Pip’s story to be narrated by an older, and wiser Pip, Gold states that Pip becomes the person he is…

Before we can begin a discussion about our need to turn our nation back to God, we must address the relationship between God and the person of Jesus Christ. The Bible is clear that Jesus is God’s only begotten Son. I believe this to be fact. Jesus, however, is also God. I know this is a tough concept to grasp. How can Jesus be God if He is also the Son of God? First and foremost, we cannot attempt to constrain God to the laws of physics that we are subject to. He created these laws and by…

33 Seek the Kingdom of God[a] above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. (Matt 6:33 nlt) I like the strange stories that pop up in the newspaper every now and then. I don 't want a steady diet of them, after all the news, and what is going on in the world is important. As a Christian its important for us to be informed on what is going on in the world. But lets face it, we can only take so much of the hard news before we begin to get overwhelmed…

If someone were to ask, “what are the kind of words are you NOT allowed to say called?”, how would you respond? Cursing? Swearing? Cussing? Having a foul mouth? There are many different variations of this peculiar part of the English language, but one thing is clear about them: you may get in trouble for saying them. Along with having many different names, this part of the language that will be called profanity originates from many different subjects of what is considered taboo. But just who…