
Heretics and Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton’s Heretics was first published in 1905, with Orthodoxy following in 1908. Chesterton viewed them as companions to one another, as Orthodoxy was written as a response to criticism he had received for Heretics. For while Heretics presents the negative view of Chesterton’s beliefs, Orthodoxy presents the positive; in a sense, Heretics contains the anathemas while Orthodoxy contains...
G. K. Chesterton’s Heretics was first published in 1905, with Orthodoxy following in 1908. Chesterton viewed them as companions to one another, as Orthodoxy was written as a response to criticism he had received for Heretics. For while Heretics presents the negative view of Chesterton’s beliefs, Orthodoxy presents the positive; in a sense, Heretics contains the anathemas while Orthodoxy contains...