Chesterton : the nightmare goodness of God /
The literary giant G.K. Chesterton is often praised as the""Great Optimist""--God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's darker vision of the world and those w...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Waco, Tex. :
Baylor University Press,
2011
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| Series: | Making of the Christian imagination.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The literary giant G.K. Chesterton is often praised as the""Great Optimist""--God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's darker vision of the world and those who live in it. During an age when the words grace, love, and gospel, sound more hackneyed than genuine, Wood argues for a recovery of Chesterton's primary contentions: First, that the incarnation of Jesus was necessary reveals a world full not of a righteous creation but of tragedy, terror, and nightmare. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1602584427 9781602584426 |
