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ABOUT THE BOOK
The Everlasting Man is a strange kind of Christian apologetics, which relates the story of man from the beginning of time. Chesterton gives a delightful thrashing to the anthropologist who draw amazing conclusion from minimal evidence, emphasizes that whether or not evolution is true, it offers absolutely no reasonable explanation for the vast divide between man and the animals, pokes some fun at the silliness of comparative religion, and tease the historical critics who draw insupportable claims about the origins of orthodox Christianity. A brilliant study of comparative religion from earliest known human history to recent times. The author looks at the essence of each religion and what makes them different to Christianity so that you gradually realise that there is very little in which they can be compared much less considered similar. There is no political correctness is what he says, if there were, the differences would have been neutralised until everything tasted more or less the same.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was born in London, educated at St. Paul's and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundred of poems, including the epic âBallad of the white horse; Five plays; Five novels and some two hundred short stories. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he consider himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily news. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.'s Weekly.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION:THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK .......................... 9
CHAPTER I
THE MAN IN THE CAVE .........................................................................17
CHAPTER II
Professors and Prehistoric Men ...................................................................30
CHAPTER III
THE ANTIQUITY OF CIVILISATION......................................................42
CHAPTER IV
GOD AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION...................................................61
CHAPTER V
MAN AND MYTHOLOGIES .....................................................................75
CHAPTER VI
THE DEMONS AND THE PHILOSOPHERS ...........................................86
CHAPTER VII
THE WAR OF THE GODS AND DEMONS ............................................102
CHAPTER VIII
THE END OF THE WORLD .................................................................... 113
PART II
ON THE MAN CALLED CHRIST
CHAPTER I
THE GOD IN THE CAVE.........................................................................126
CHAPTER II
THE RIDDLES OF THE GOSPEL ........................................... 139
CHAPTER III
The Strangest Story in the World ...............................................................149
CHAPTER IV
The Witness of the Heretics .......................................................................160
CHAPTER V
The Escape from Paganism ........................................................................174
CHAPTER VI
The Five Deaths of the Faith ......................................................................187
Conclusion
The Summary Of This Book ......................................................................196
Appendix I
On Prehistoric Man ....................................................................................203
Appendix II
On Authority and Accuracy ........................................................................205
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