Reviews for More Quotable Chesterton: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom and Satire of G. K. Chesterton

The average rating for More Quotable Chesterton: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom and Satire of G. K. Chesterton based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-09 00:00:00 Leon Spencer So you have been a Catholic your whole life. Maybe even went to Catholic School. But through college and out in your job you feel like you are surrounded by Bible thumping Christians who have taken as their personal crusade to convert their heathen brother. That is you. What do you do? You know that they are great people. Very sincere in their faith. And seemingly very strong Christians. They love God, Jesus His Son and the Holy Spirit. In fact they are consumed by it and frankly it is a little bit attractive at times. Especially since you might be a luke-warm Catholic at best. But something is nagging you. It's maybe your mom's voice in the back of your head that she raised you a particular way. Or maybe it's that you would really miss those beautifully lit Midnight Masses. Though you might be restless in your inherited faith, you aren't ready to take the kind of plunge your friends are promising. Sorry to take 3 paragraphs to say this: READ THIS BOOK! Karl Keating will change your perspective. And maybe if you are really lucky you can hand it over to your friends and convert them instead. Keating delves into all the misconceptions about Catholicism. Especially all the shoddy history that has been written by so-called "ex-priests" who have an axe to grind. "C&F" will cover all the bases. It grabs ahold of nearly all the main attacks that Catholicism has undergone from fundamentalists who constantly barrage the Catholic Church as the "Whore of Babylon" referenced in Revelations. Keating is thorough in his defense and lays open the faultiness of their arguments as well as how nearly every reference that a fundamentalist will use as being flawed in its presentation of what Catholicism really is. Most of their references are flat out lies and misrepresentations. A warning though. You will want to savor this book. In fact it will be impossible to tear through it in only a few days. I read it methodically--maybe a chapter or 2 a night and that was it! I had to if I wanted to wrap my mind around on everything he was saying, and reflect fully on it. Trust me--it's like weight-training for your faith. You will need to train slowly, with deliberate technique in your reflection. I attribute this book as the corner-stone of my turn-around in my defense of my faith. From being merely passive and believing to becoming active and defensive in my Catholic faith as we are all called to do.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-03-17 00:00:00 Diane Rawls Great.