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How many hells did Swedenborg say there were?

G.K. Chesterton is here referring to Swedenborg's common (for him) and somewhat unusual (in general religious writing) expression "the hells." In his voluminous theological writings, Emanuel ...
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Was Jesus ever an atheist?

The key phrase here is, "They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation," implying that he was an atheist "for an instant." This is a clear reference to Matthew ...
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In which year did Chesterton write the 'I am' (what's wrong with the world) letter?

This story is no doubt related to the 1910 publication of Chesterton's book What's Wrong With the World, the dedication to which contains a number of jokes at Chesterton's expense: Many a mild lady ...
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Meaning of Poem

The poem is addressed to the Blessed Virgin, and its title evokes the prayer called the Litany of Loreto. In this prayer, the Virgin Mary's prayers are requested, and she is invoked under many ...
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Was Jesus ever an atheist?

Chesterton has a penchant for paradox that often leads him, on the one hand, to probe very deeply into the tissue and joints of any topic; on the other hand, it sometimes leads him into statements ...
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In which year did Chesterton write the 'I am' (what's wrong with the world) letter?

I spent the last hour scouring the last pages, of the last eight years of Gilbert! Magazine where Chesterton "answers his mail" because they always put real responses to made up questions in ...
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Did Chesterton ever explain why he did not formally become a Catholic until long after he had starting thinking and writing for Catholics?

G.K. Chesterton might not have explicitly explained it, owing to the fact that he very rarely talked about his wife out of extreme prudence. From his poetry you can tell that he loved her dearly, but ...
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Did Chesterton ever explain why he did not formally become a Catholic until long after he had starting thinking and writing for Catholics?

Chesterton wrote a book The Catholic Church and Conversion in 1926. It was not primarily about his own conversion though he acknowledged that if he was to understand the conversion of others he must ...
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Has the Anglo-Catholic understanding of suicide changed in the 20th-21st century enough to render Chesterton's comparison with martyrdom irrelevant?

Attitudes to suicide had already changed well before the time of Chesterton. The Christian attitude described by Chesterton was already in the past. This can be seen by his use of the past tense. The ...
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Has the Anglo-Catholic understanding of suicide changed in the 20th-21st century enough to render Chesterton's comparison with martyrdom irrelevant?

The General Synod of the Church of England announced that suicides could receive Anglican funerals as far back as 2015. Comments made in the linked article seem to reflect the general shift in ...
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What is the theological basis for distributism?

Distributism Distributism is an alternative to the capitalism/socialism dichotomy. As John Médaille describes it (The Distributist Review, An Introduction to Distributism): Its key tenet is that ...
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Where did Chesterton's idea that a heresy was a fixation on a particular virtue within Christianity come from?

The oldest and most persistent heresies are all an extreme focus on something true. Trinitarian heresies (examples: modalism, tritheism) are usually hyper-focused on the oneness of God, or otherwise ...
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Was Jesus ever an atheist?

No, Jesus who is the Messiah and sitted at the right hand of the Great White Throne or power was never an atheist. Jesus hardly said anything without mentioning God or Father. John 14:28 ye loved me, ...
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Was Jesus ever an atheist?

It would be nice to have the page number of the book you quote from, then we might be able to check context. Without that, we cannot speak about the long-deceased Chesterton here, let alone "for&...
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Did Chesterton ever explain why he did not formally become a Catholic until long after he had starting thinking and writing for Catholics?

Why did it take so long for Chesterton to become Catholic? That is a secret between the Holy Spirit and G. K. Chesterton and neither one has revealed the answer. The operations of grace of the Holy ...
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What was G.K. Chesterton's proof of original sin, and what is so unique about it?

If you enumerate some of the main dogmas of the faith that Anglicans or Catholics hold: The Trinity The Incarnation The Resurrection The Hypostatic Union The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist ...
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What was G.K. Chesterton's proof of original sin, and what is so unique about it?

What was G.K. Chesterton's proof of original sin, and what is so unique about it? For Chesterton not only is sin a fact, original sin is a fact, an observable fact one can "see in the street.&...
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