Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion In Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton sets out to explain how he arrived at Christian belief, not through inherited convention, but through a hard-won sense that the world is both stranger and more meaningful than modern cynicism allows. Framed as a personal intellectual adventure, the book follows Chesterton as he tests the fashionable ideas of his age - skepticism, materialism, and self-made philosophies - and finds them unable to account for everyday experience: joy and duty, wonder and reason, sin and virtue, freedom and constraint. With wit, paradox, and vivid imagery, he argues that Christian orthodoxy is not a dull set of rules but a daring balance of opposites that protects the color and sanity of life. Along the way he reflects on imagination, humility, morality, and the peril of making the self the measure of truth. Both a defense of faith and a critique of modern assumptions, Orthodoxy invites listeners to reconsider what seems obvious, and to see belief as a living, dynamic response to the real world. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:11:32) Chapter 2 (00:56:00) Chapter 3 (01:38:08) Chapter 4 (02:35:26) Chapter 5 (03:17:24) Chapter 6 (04:15:57) Chapter 7 (05:18:58) Chapter 8 (06:04:21) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices