Orthodoxy

Chesterton tells how he came back to Christian orthodoxy by trying to invent a heresy and finding the creed already there. Hear Orthodoxy unabridged in English: paradox as a method, the ethics of elfland, a defence of wonder against the thin philosophies that explain the world away. Listen to wit used as a blade, not as a garnish. Spoken apologetics — freedom and order, joy and the need for a shape. Adelphi's reading treats the essays as an argument you follow by ear. Not a hymn with a lecture attached. A conversion heard as comedy and steel. Elfland's rules against the suicide of thought; the maniac who will not be surprised; the Church as a shape that holds wildness. Listen to Chesterton fight thin philosophies with a joke that lands like a creed. Spoken orthodoxy as adventure, not as a lid.