The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 2This volume contains three of Chesterton's greatest classics on Catholic philosophy and spirituality. It includes The Everlasting Man, possibly his greatest work, which gives an Incarnational view of world history, and two of the finest biographies written of St. Thomas and St. Francis. |
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Contents
General Editors Introduction ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI | 7 |
Introduction by George William Rutler | 13 |
The Problem of St Francis | 25 |
The World St Francis Found | 32 |
Francis the Fighter | 46 |
Francis the Builder | 57 |
Le Jongleur de Dieu | 67 |
The Little Poor Man | 79 |
The War of the Gods and Demons | 269 |
The End of the World | 283 |
ON THE MAN CALLED CHRIST | 299 |
The God in the Cave | 301 |
The Riddles of the Gospel | 318 |
The Strangest Story in the World | 331 |
The Witness of the Heretics | 346 |
The Escape from Paganism | 364 |
The Three Orders | 91 |
The Mirror of Christ | 103 |
Miracles and Death | 115 |
The Testament of St Francis | 126 |
THE EVERLASTING | 135 |
Introduction by Larry Azar | 137 |
Prefatory Note | 141 |
The Plan of This Book | 143 |
ON THE CREATURE Called | 153 |
The Man in the Cave | 155 |
Professors and Prehistoric Men | 172 |
The Antiquity of Civilisation | 188 |
God In Comparative Religion | 214 |
Man and Mythologies | 233 |
Demons and Philosophers | 248 |
The Five Deaths of the Faith | 382 |
THE SUMMARY OF THIS BOOK | 394 |
ST THOMAS AQUINAS | 409 |
Introduction by Raymond Dennehy | 413 |
Introductory Note | 419 |
On Two Friars | 421 |
The Runaway Abbot | 443 |
The Aristotelian Revolution | 455 |
A Meditation on the Manichees | 478 |
The Real Life of St Thomas | 495 |
The Approach to Thomism | 513 |
The Permanent Philosophy | 524 |
The Sequel to St Thomas | 540 |
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