The Everlasting Man: Complete and Unabridged, with Editor's Introduction

"The very best popular defence of the full Christian position I know." — C.S. LewisWhat makes human beings so different from every other creature on earth?

And what makes Jesus of Nazareth so different from every other religious teacher in history?In 1925, G.K. Chesterton set out to answer both questions — and to challenge the popular assumption that man is merely an unusually clever animal and Christ merely an unusually good man.Written as a response to H.G.

Wells's bestselling The Outline of History, The Everlasting Man traces the full sweep of human civilisation in two parts. In Part I, "On the Creature Called Man," Chesterton argues that the prehistoric cave painter was not a halfway point between ape and human but something altogether new — a creature unlike anything else in nature.

In Part II, "On the Man Called Christ," he turns the same unflinching gaze on Jesus, showing that honest comparison with other religious founders does not flatten Christ into the crowd but makes him stand out more starkly.The result is a book that changed minds.

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Lewis, then a young atheist at Oxford, read it in 1926 and later wrote that he "saw the whole Christian outline of history set out in a form that seemed to me to make sense." He would call it the most important book in his own journey to faith.Witty, provocative, and brimming with Chesterton's gift for making the familiar strange again, The Everlasting Man remains one of the great works of Christian thought — and one of the most enjoyable to read.This edition presents Chesterton's complete and unabridged text with an editor's introduction.