G.K. Chesterton, Theologian

GK Chesterton was one of the leading and most versatile Catholic minds of the 20th century, one of whose books helped convert CS Lewis to Christianity. The author is a lecturer at Cambridge University and this book is based on lectures given at Oxford in memory of John Paul II. As such, its most immediate appeal will be to Catholic readers but it introduces Chesterton to the general reader in a wider context with discussions on the nature of spirituality and secularism. I particularly enjoyed the quotation from Father Brown that 'I can believe the impossible, but not the improbable', which, incidentally he also relates to the incredible.