tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post6614291672556199677..comments2023-07-31T10:39:53.182-05:00Comments on The Blog of the American Chesterton Society: Just finishedNancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-10815069606423170842009-10-07T13:53:36.594-05:002009-10-07T13:53:36.594-05:00Thanks! I'm sure I'll get round to reading...Thanks! I'm sure I'll get round to reading it before too long. I'm glad it concentrates on the inner rather than the outer life.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-18610900217130363942009-10-07T11:21:22.757-05:002009-10-07T11:21:22.757-05:00Yes, I thought it might be too and avoided it for ...Yes, I thought it might be too and avoided it for at least six months. But when I finally had time to read it, I found it easy to read, engaging, thoughtful, insightful, and anything but dull. No menus. This is a study, basically, of Chesterton's spiritual development. It contains biographical information to aid in the telling of the story, but never gets bogged down in the details of daily life. The main story is Chesterton's mental development, his emotional development, and all as it pertains to his spiritual development. How did he get from a house that raised him as a liberal Unitarian Universalist, to pass through a time of basic agnosticism, to a trek into the valley of satanism, and out into the world of orthodoxy? That is the story, and it is really quite a story.<br />If you've got the time, read it. Ask your library to purchase it.Nancy C. Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-31420242910419564972009-10-07T11:08:37.067-05:002009-10-07T11:08:37.067-05:00It looks intimidatingly bulky....is it one of thes...It looks intimidatingly bulky....is it one of these biographies that gives the menu for every dinner party he ever attended? Like Roy Foster's gargantuan two-volume biography of Yeats....Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.com