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"I read Chesterton's Everlasting Man and for the first time saw the whole Christian outline of history set out in a form that seemed to me to make sense..." -C.S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy "G. K. Chesterton routinely ignites more ideas per page than any Christian author of the twentieth... read more
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First Sentence
Far away in some strange constellation in skies infinitely remote, there is a small star, which astronomers may some day discover.
Table of Contents
Prefatory Note
Introduction: The Plan of This Book
Part I: On the Creature Called Man
I. The Man in the Cave
II. Professors and Prehistoric Men
III. The Antiquity of Civilisation
IV. God and Comparative Religion
V. Man and Mythologies
VI. The Demons and the Philosophers
VII. The War of the Gods and Demons
VIII. The End of the World
Part II: On the Man Called Christ
I. The God in the Cave
II. The Riddles of the Gospel
III. The Strangest Story in the World
IV. The Witness of the Heretics
V. The Escape from Paganism
VI. The Five Deaths of the Faith
Conclusion: The Summary of This Book
Appendix I: On Prehistoric Man
Appendix II: On Authority and Accuracy
Authors & Contributors
- G. K. Chesterton (Author)
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