This faithful sacrifice has become a rich inheritance for the Church in our day, even though it is often neglected. Not all paid with blood, but each spent his life fighting for the truth. Paid a high price for the words you see before you. THE CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SERIES: The authors in the It was here that a homeless couple had crept underground with the cattle when the doors of the crowded caravanserai had been shut in their faces.Īnd it was here beneath the very feet of the passers-by, in a cellar under the very floor of the world, that Jesus Christ was born.” ~ From The second half of human history, which was like a new creation of the world, also begins in a cave. “This sketch of the human story began in a cave the cave which popular science associates with the cave-man and in which practical discovery has really found archaic drawings of animals. What makes Christianity so different is that it tells of the story of the true man, the final man, the everlasting man, who came down in history and transformed it.

What truly gives man his dignity is the fact that he is so different from the beasts.

Lewis, Chesterton shows that once man is reduced to animal, history becomes utterly meaningless. Why not engage the same subject matter Wells had taken up, but from a perspective fully appreciative of the unique place Christianity held in human history? The result isĪ humorous defense of Christianity which inspired C.S. Wells wrote a two-volume work which became a best-seller,

The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton