I had never heard of him and had no idea of what he stood for nor can I quite understand why he made such an immediate conquest of me. It was here that I first read a volume of Chesterton’s essays. It was while in the army in WWI that Lewis said: I was equally angry with Him for creating a world. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. Lewis credits Chesterton, and in particular The Everlasting Man, with displaying the rationality of the Christian worldview par excellence, though it was not one work alone, but a progressive development away from atheism and toward God, that Lewis discusses. Gilbert Kyle Chesterton remains one of the great voices of Christian faith in the last century, and it is a tragedy that more Christians are not familiar with his work.
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