Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 - 14 de Junio de 1936), lo que es en English escritor, filósofo, lay teólogo, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the prince of paradox". La revista Time observed of his writing estilo: "Siempre que sea posible Chesterton made his puntos with popular, refranes, proverbios, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out". Chesterton created the fictional sacerdote-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as en el "ortodoxo" Christian, and came to identify esta posición more and more with Catholicism, finalmente convertidora de angiotensina to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, en " his "friendly enemy", said of him, "He was a man of colosal genius". Biographers have identified him as a successor to búsqueda Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, el Cardenal John Henry Newman y John Ruskin.