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Chesterton and Evil : Studies in Religion and Literature - Mark Knight

Chesterton and Evil

By: Mark Knight

Hardcover | 1 March 2004

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In the engaging Chesterton and Evil, Mark Knight offers a compelling analysis of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and the influence of his late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction. In his Autobiography, Chesterton observed: "Perhaps, when I eventually emerged as a sort of theorist, and was described as an Optimist, it was because I was one of the few people in that world of diabolism who really believed in devils." Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature of evil is at the center of Chesterton's fiction, Knight provides a means of locating Chesterton's work among theological and cultural concerns of his age.

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" In place of the popular cricature of Chesterton as a lightweight Pollyanna, Knight postulates a writer who constructed a multifaceted and comprehensive response to evil." -- -G.A. Cevasco English Literature in Transition "Makes a valuable contribution to Chesterton scholarship by dispelling a chronic misconception about his thought." -Seven "Knight's book suceeds brilliantly in explaining the apparent contradiction between an author who taught a gospel of joy and a man who was preoccupied with the problem of evil." -Christianity & Literature "Knight acutely analyzes the nature of Chesterton's long struggle with nihilism." -The Christian Century

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