The Everlasting Man

Complete edition of The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton successfully challenges the view that man is just another evolutionary animal, and that Jesus Christ was only human. C. S. Lewis said it was the best popular defense of the full Christian position.  Find out why in this complete reproduction of the 1925 British Edition.

Deep common sense on every page, it includes great thoughts such as these:

“The life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God.”

“Atheists may continue to war with Christianity, but it will be as they war with nature; as they war with the landscape, as they war with the skies.”

Witty, deep, and positively entertaining, no student of thought should be without this historic book. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price.  

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFATORY NOTE    3

INTRODUCTION: THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK    3

PART I: ON THE CREATURE CALLED MAN        8    

CHAPTER 1 THE MAN IN THE CAVE    8

CHAPTER 2 PROFESSORS AND PREHISTORIC MEN    15

CHAPTER 3 THE ANTIQUITY OF CIVILISATION    22

CHAPTER 4 GOD AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION    33

CHAPTER 5 MAN AND MYTHOLOGIES    41

CHAPTER 6 THE DEMONS AND THE PHILOSOPHERS    48

CHAPTER 7 THE WAR OF THE GODS AND DEMONS    57

CHAPTER 8 THE END OF THE WORLD    64

PART II: ON THE MAN CALLED CHRIST    70

CHAPTER 1 THE GOD IN THE CAVE    70

CHAPTER 2 THE RIDDLES OF THE GOSPEL    77

CHAPTER 3 THE STRANGEST STORY IN THE WORD    83

CHAPTER 4 THE WITNESS OF THE HERETICS    89

CHAPTER 5 THE ESCAPE FROM PAGANISM    97

CHAPTER 6 THE FIVE DEATHS OF THE FAITH    105

CONCLUSION: THE SUMMARY OF THIS BOOK    110

APPENDIX I: ON PREHISTORIC MAN    114

APPENDIX II: ON AUTHORITY AND ACCURACY    115