C.S. Lewis famously credited G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man as a key step in his turn from atheism to Christian faith. The book audaciously surveyed the broad sweep of human history, then zeroed in on the Incarnation of Christ. How, Chesterton asked, could such a mysterious and startling event come to be known as the center point of history? And how did this intellectual mystic offer a fresh path into this story for so many?
In conjunction with the release of our Christmas Trinity Forum Reading, The Strangest Story in the World, we delved into this iconic work with one of the world’s leading Chesterton scholars, Dale Ahlquist. Both the Reading and this conversation helped us to prepare ourselves for the Incarnation during the Advent season – and to go deeper with Chesterton on the eve of the 100th anniversary of The Everlasting Man.
