{"product_id":"the-everlasting-man-9781684226344","title":"The Everlasting Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. \u003cem\u003eThe Everlasting Man\u003c\/em\u003e is a one of Chesterton's better-known works in Christian apologetics. It is, to some extent, a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells' \u003cem\u003eThe Outline of History\u003c\/em\u003e, disputing Wells' portrayals of human life and civilization as a seamless development from animal life and of Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure. Chesterton detailed his own spiritual journey in \u003cem\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/em\u003e, but in this book he tries to illustrate the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilization. The author Ross Douthat credits that, \"Chesterton's somewhat loosey-goosey outline of history doubles as the best modern argument for Christianity I've ever read. You have to give in to the Chestertonian style, but if you do, be careful - you might just be converted. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC. S. Lewis credited \u003cem\u003eThe Everlasting Man\u003c\/em\u003e with \"baptizing\" his intellect, much as George MacDonald's writings had baptized his imagination, so as to make him more than half-converted well before he could bring himself to embrace Christianity. In a 1950 letter to Sheldon Vanauken, Lewis calls the book \"the best popular apologetic I know,\" and in 1947 he wrote to Rhonda Bodle: \"the [very] best popular defense of the full Christian position I know is G. K. Chesterton's \u003cem\u003eThe Everlasting Man\u003c\/em\u003e.\" The book was also cited by The Christian Century in a list of 10 books that \"most shaped [Lewis'] vocational attitude and philosophy of life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents: \u003c\/strong\u003ePart I: On the creature called man -- I. The man in the cave -- II. Professors and prehistoric men -- III. The antiquity of civilization -- IV. God in comparative religion -- V. Man and mythologies -- VI. Demons and philosophers -- VII. The war of the gods and demons -- VIII. The end of the world -- Part II: On the man called Christ -- I. The God in the cave -- II. The riddles of the gospel -- III. The strangest story in the world -- IV. The witness of the heretics -- V. The escape from Paganism -- VI. The five deaths of the faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Martino Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50724835721490,"sku":"9781684226344","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_baf8d79e-a15c-4098-818d-0cdaf1c781f8.jpg?v=1774962585","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-everlasting-man-9781684226344","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}