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Unraveling Christianity's Profound Impact On Civilization "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." The Everlasting Man by English author G. K. Chesterton is a seminal Christian apologetics book and a 20th-century Christian literature classic... Read Full Overview

The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton, first published in 1925, is a classic work of Christian apologetics that examines the history of human civilization in a unique light. Chesterton's argument is that Christianity is the only religion that can explain the evolution of human... Read Full Overview

"The best popular apologetic I know." -- C. S. Lewis

The Everlasting Man is a response to scientism as a history of man proposed by H.G. Wells in his book "A Short History of the World." In the first part of the book, "On the Creature Called Man," Chesterton provides an overview of various stages of humanity and different civilizations,... Read Full Overview

Considered by many to be Chesterton's greatest masterpiece of all his writings, this is his whole view of world history as informed by the Incarnation. Beginning with the origin of man and the various religious attitudes throughout history, Chesterton shows how the fulfillment... Read Full Overview

An unabridged edition to include: Prefatory Note - Introduction: The Plan of This Book - The Man in the Cave - Professors and Prehistoric Men - The Antiquity of Civilization - God and Comparative Religion - Man and Mythologies - Demons and the Philosophers - The War of the... Read Full Overview

El hombre eterno (The Everlasting Man) es un ensayo hist rico en dos partes sobre la humanidad, Cristo y el Cristianismo, de G. K. Chesterton, publicado en 1925. Es hasta cierto punto una consciente respuesta al libro de H. G. Wells' Outline of History, que envuelve ambos, el... Read Full Overview

The Everlasting Man is to some extent, a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells' The Outline of History, disputing Wells' portrayals of human life and civilization as a seamless development from animal life and of Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure... Read Full Overview

This classic exploration of human history vis- -vis its link to Christianity ponders the question: What makes human beings uniquely human? In this thoughtful response to the rampant social Darwinism of the early twentieth century, G. K. Chesterton explains how religion -- a blend... Read Full Overview

Here is the book that converted C. S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity. This history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity is to some extent a conscious rebuttal of H. G. Wells' Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary origins of humanity and the mortal humanity... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

O homem eterno ? a resposta a uma obra de H. G. Wells sobre a origem do mundo. Chesterton ilustra de forma ambiciosa a jornada espiritual da humanidade, principalmente da civiliza??o ocidental, e as principais transforma??es ap?s se tornar crist?. Este cl?ssico da literatura... Read Full Overview