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The Ball and the Cross (Dover Literature: Literary Fiction)
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The Ball and the Cross is similar to The Man Who Was Thursday. It starts slow but ever so gradually, the gas pedal is pressed. You get more and more exciting, and before you know it, you have an ending that wraps nicely and is extremely Christian.
Like Thursday, the story is best understood as a theological-philosophical thriller. I have not come across any other author who can do this, save for C.S. Lewis in his space trilogy. It is almost a completely unique genre that Chesterton is very gifted at writing.
Would highly recommend.
Like Thursday, the story is best understood as a theological-philosophical thriller. I have not come across any other author who can do this, save for C.S. Lewis in his space trilogy. It is almost a completely unique genre that Chesterton is very gifted at writing.
Would highly recommend.
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Quotes Jonathan Liked
“Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all fashions are mild insanities. When Italy is mad on art the Church seems too Puritanical; when England is mad on Puritanism the Church seems too artistic. When you quarrel with us now you class us with kingship and despotism; but when you quarrelled with us first it was because we would not accept the divine despotism of Henry VIII. The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times; it is waiting till the last fad shall have seen its last summer. It keeps the key of a permanent virtue.”
― The Ball and the Cross
― The Ball and the Cross
Reading Progress
2021
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Started Reading
November 29, 2021
– Shelved
November 29, 2021
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Finished Reading
