This is my (very brief) summary of GK Chesterton's book, Heretics, which was published in 1905 and is considered a great work of Christian apologetics.
Heck yeah brother! I grew up on Chesterton effectively, and read his hevy hitters when I was 18. What he said is still unfolding before my eyes. It's good too that Chesterton mentioned writers and fiction writers in Heretics. It was a big warning to me and my developing writer's mind. I'm an author myself, and I see all the Cr*p he described in his day play out in the literary styles of authors then, in the 1980s (fantasy/sci-fi) and ...mostly up to today, because that is being eaten out by the [UNSPECIFICE POLITCAL MOVEMENT THAT RHYMES WITH] 'joke'. Keep up the good work, man! Hope to see more.
@VisualCatholic Yeah. Read GCK. Lewis, and Tolkein, all before I got to college, thank God. Granted, what I learned I didn't understand until I had experience, BUT it was still like a map to navigate parts of life, and to help avoid the pitfalls of modern, non-Christian fantasy. It can be poisonous, brother, which is why I plan on being a Chritian writer comparable to Tolkein but refuting the nasty things in fantasy ( postmodernism, existential idealism, ie 'if you believe it hard enough it is a true thing that becomes physically real', and magical materialism, which is like treating the supernatural as another branch of science. I have been prepared for it, and now I am writing my own stories and blog.
And to get people to refute Carl Jung and Jiseph Campbell! Arelchtypes are a replacement spirituality and the Heros Journey is repackaged Hermeticism, a branch of magic. Oh, and Theosophy! Conan the barbarians author and others of his time were influenced by it, and some of its attitudes permeate sci fi and fantasy. WHEW. Anyway, if you are interested I can send you a link to my blog. Keep on the good work!
Excellent summary - thank you for your work!
glad to hear you liked it. it's a difficult book to summarise!!
Heck yeah brother! I grew up on Chesterton effectively, and read his hevy hitters when I was 18. What he said is still unfolding before my eyes. It's good too that Chesterton mentioned writers and fiction writers in Heretics. It was a big warning to me and my developing writer's mind.
I'm an author myself, and I see all the Cr*p he described in his day play out in the literary styles of authors then, in the 1980s (fantasy/sci-fi) and ...mostly up to today, because that is being eaten out by the [UNSPECIFICE POLITCAL MOVEMENT THAT RHYMES WITH] 'joke'.
Keep up the good work, man! Hope to see more.
glad you liked it! it's awesome you discovered Chesterton growing up!
@VisualCatholic Yeah. Read GCK. Lewis, and Tolkein, all before I got to college, thank God. Granted, what I learned I didn't understand until I had experience, BUT it was still like a map to navigate parts of life, and to help avoid the pitfalls of modern, non-Christian fantasy. It can be poisonous, brother, which is why I plan on being a Chritian writer comparable to Tolkein but refuting the nasty things in fantasy ( postmodernism, existential idealism, ie 'if you believe it hard enough it is a true thing that becomes physically real', and magical materialism, which is like treating the supernatural as another branch of science. I have been prepared for it, and now I am writing my own stories and blog.
And to get people to refute Carl Jung and Jiseph Campbell! Arelchtypes are a replacement spirituality and the Heros Journey is repackaged Hermeticism, a branch of magic. Oh, and Theosophy! Conan the barbarians author and others of his time were influenced by it, and some of its attitudes permeate sci fi and fantasy.
WHEW. Anyway, if you are interested I can send you a link to my blog. Keep on the good work!
That's trooth
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