God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), Schriftsteller

Topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Wisdom & Understanding

Occasions: For Reflection

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton war ein englischer Schriftsteller, Journalist und katholischer Apologet, der in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in England wirkte. Bekannt wurde er durch die Kriminalgeschichten um Pater Brown sowie theologische Werke wie „Orthodoxy“, in denen er den christlichen Glauben mit pointierten Paradoxien und Zivilisationskritik verteidigte. Heutigen Bibellesern vermittelt sein Werk scharfsinnige apologetische Impulse, steht jedoch wegen wiederkehrender antijüdischer Passagen in seinen Texten auch in der Kritik.

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