Comments on: Orthodoxy: 20th Century http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/ Diet products tips Mon, 21 May 2012 18:25:14 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/#comment-405 Anonymous Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:23:20 +0000 http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/#comment-405 This book is a hilariously funny read of the rolling on the floor variety! It had me LOL uncontrollably in public when I first discovered it at a local bookstore. And I happen to be a heretic, of the early Christian variety with a little New Age thrown in, that Chesterton so apparently dislikes. <br>Paraphrasing some of my favorite lines (about the editor of the Clarion) "he's one early Christian that should have been eaten by lions" or "there's another word for Agnosticism, it's called Ignorance" or "Jesus tells you to love your neighbor, Annie Bessant says you are your neighbor" and then goes on to complain that the reason you love your neighbor is the same reason you love a woman, because she's different from you. <br>He also has lot of not so Christian things to say about George Bernard Shaw (apparently a compulsive liar, I never knew! hehehe) and Nietzche. Occasionally Chesterton makes a salient point, such as will being limiting. But most of it is the very "light sophism" that he complains his critics accuse him of. Students of logic would love this book because it's fun to pick apart the endless twisted reasoning. He gets away with it (and why I suspect this book has remained popular for so long) because of the unintentional humorous bon mots combined with a childish glee and naivety and, yes, charm. Chesterton doesn't like the "funny" adjective applied to him and complains he never says anything funny that he doesn't deeply believe in first. Poor guy. Nonetheless not a page goes by that doesn't have you chuckling. Rating: 5 / 5 This book is a hilariously funny read of the rolling on the floor variety! It had me LOL uncontrollably in public when I first discovered it at a local bookstore. And I happen to be a heretic, of the early Christian variety with a little New Age thrown in, that Chesterton so apparently dislikes.
Paraphrasing some of my favorite lines (about the editor of the Clarion) “he’s one early Christian that should have been eaten by lions” or “there’s another word for Agnosticism, it’s called Ignorance” or “Jesus tells you to love your neighbor, Annie Bessant says you are your neighbor” and then goes on to complain that the reason you love your neighbor is the same reason you love a woman, because she’s different from you.
He also has lot of not so Christian things to say about George Bernard Shaw (apparently a compulsive liar, I never knew! hehehe) and Nietzche. Occasionally Chesterton makes a salient point, such as will being limiting. But most of it is the very “light sophism” that he complains his critics accuse him of. Students of logic would love this book because it’s fun to pick apart the endless twisted reasoning. He gets away with it (and why I suspect this book has remained popular for so long) because of the unintentional humorous bon mots combined with a childish glee and naivety and, yes, charm. Chesterton doesn’t like the “funny” adjective applied to him and complains he never says anything funny that he doesn’t deeply believe in first. Poor guy. Nonetheless not a page goes by that doesn’t have you chuckling.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: W. Moore http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/#comment-404 W. Moore Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:46:51 +0000 http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/#comment-404 Chesterton no doubt was a brilliant man! In Orthodoxy he does not write for the common person, but for philosophers and intellectuals who enjoy such semantics. I had wished he had expressed his ideas more simply: i.e. in parables and analogies, like his Lord did, but such is very hard to do! As a preacher of the gospel I was disappointed with much of the book for this reason. Rating: 2 / 5 Chesterton no doubt was a brilliant man! In Orthodoxy he does not write for the common person, but for philosophers and intellectuals who enjoy such semantics. I had wished he had expressed his ideas more simply: i.e. in parables and analogies, like his Lord did, but such is very hard to do! As a preacher of the gospel I was disappointed with much of the book for this reason.
Rating: 2 / 5

]]> By: A. Roskill http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/#comment-403 A. Roskill Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:11:10 +0000 http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/#comment-403 This book has THE WORST formatting I've ever seen. It looks like it was hastily put together using Microsoft Word. Very amateurish. The cover doesn't even have the title on the spine, so I can't recognize it on my bookshelf. <br /> <br />The version from BiblioBazaar: <br />Orthodoxy <br />is MUCH MUCH better, well worth the extra dollar or two. Rating: 1 / 5 This book has THE WORST formatting I’ve ever seen. It looks like it was hastily put together using Microsoft Word. Very amateurish. The cover doesn’t even have the title on the spine, so I can’t recognize it on my bookshelf.

The version from BiblioBazaar:

Orthodoxy

is MUCH MUCH better, well worth the extra dollar or two.
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: Anonymous http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/#comment-402 Anonymous Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:09:06 +0000 http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/#comment-402 Having come recently to the Orthodox faith, I eagerly cracked the covers of G.K. Chresterton's ORTHODOXY, The Romance of Faith. What I found was a carmudgeon's rantings, which for the most part consisted of points that had faulty underpinnings. More disturbing still was the underlying racism and elitism woven throughout the fabric of this so-called testimonal on faith. Fortunatley for me, this book isn't even actually about Orthodoxy, but about Roman Catholicism, and Anglicanism, so my burgeoning faith is still safe from the likes of Chesterton. Rating: 1 / 5 Having come recently to the Orthodox faith, I eagerly cracked the covers of G.K. Chresterton’s ORTHODOXY, The Romance of Faith. What I found was a carmudgeon’s rantings, which for the most part consisted of points that had faulty underpinnings. More disturbing still was the underlying racism and elitism woven throughout the fabric of this so-called testimonal on faith. Fortunatley for me, this book isn’t even actually about Orthodoxy, but about Roman Catholicism, and Anglicanism, so my burgeoning faith is still safe from the likes of Chesterton.
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: A sincere reader http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/#comment-401 A sincere reader Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:20:16 +0000 http://mydiettips.info/2010/03/orthodoxy-20th-century/#comment-401 Insofar as entertainment value, Chesterton should be praised for his gift of prose; he would make a great talk show host! But other than simple amusement at his turns of phrase, there is little that is intellectually bearable in this book. His logic is like a sieve full of self-defeating holes. Appalled and exasperated, I could not bring myself to read past the first half of the book. An agnostic, maybe I shouldn't have hoped to be impressed by what was clearly meant ONLY for people of strong Christian faith. However, I do have respect for Chesterton's passion for his faith. I can now begin to understand what having a romance with one's faith means. This is a valiant attempt to be persuasive in an area where religious faith has no business in, is inescapably incompatible with, and hence should stay clear of--the logical, intellectual realm. No matter how much passion Chesterton has or how formidable his strength of conviction is, he cannot perform miracles in a fact-bound world; blind religious faith simply cannot be reconciled with factual scientific logic. His only excuse is that he existed in a time when science was not as advanced as it is today. Rating: 1 / 5 Insofar as entertainment value, Chesterton should be praised for his gift of prose; he would make a great talk show host! But other than simple amusement at his turns of phrase, there is little that is intellectually bearable in this book. His logic is like a sieve full of self-defeating holes. Appalled and exasperated, I could not bring myself to read past the first half of the book. An agnostic, maybe I shouldn’t have hoped to be impressed by what was clearly meant ONLY for people of strong Christian faith. However, I do have respect for Chesterton’s passion for his faith. I can now begin to understand what having a romance with one’s faith means. This is a valiant attempt to be persuasive in an area where religious faith has no business in, is inescapably incompatible with, and hence should stay clear of–the logical, intellectual realm. No matter how much passion Chesterton has or how formidable his strength of conviction is, he cannot perform miracles in a fact-bound world; blind religious faith simply cannot be reconciled with factual scientific logic. His only excuse is that he existed in a time when science was not as advanced as it is today.
Rating: 1 / 5

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