LEADER 02760nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910781586403321 005 20230725053826.0 010 $a1-60258-442-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000064285 035 $a(EBL)1037008 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565599 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11404414 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565599 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10532901 035 $a(PQKB)11227158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1037008 035 $a(OCoLC)769189745 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse572 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1037008 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10511515 035 $a(OCoLC)858761907 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000064285 100 $a20101220d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChesterton$b[electronic resource] $ethe nightmare goodness of God /$fRalph C. Wood 210 $aWaco, Tex. $cBaylor University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 225 1 $aMCI : the making of the Christian imagination 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60258-161-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aMan as holy monster: Christian humanism, evolution, and orthodoxy -- Patriotism and the true patria : distributism, hymns, and Christendom in Dublin -- Militarism and the church militant : Lepanto, defense of World War I, and the truce of Christmas -- Waning of the west and the threat of Islam : the new Jerusalem and the Flying Inn -- Tyrannical tolerance and ferocious hospitality : the ball and the cross -- Bane and blessing of civilization : torture, democracy, and the ballad of the white horse -- Nightmare mystery of divine action : the man who was Thursday. 330 $a The literary giant G. K. Chesterton is often praised as the""Great Optimist""-God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's darker vision of the world and those who live in it. During an age when the words grace, love, and gospel, sound more hackneyed than genuine, Wood argues for a recovery of Chesterton's primary contentions: First, that the incarnation of Jesus was necessary reveals a world full not of a righteous creation but of tragedy, terror, and nightmare 410 0$aMaking of the Christian imagination. 606 $aTheology in literature 615 0$aTheology in literature. 676 $a828/.91209 700 $aWood$b Ralph C$01564795 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781586403321 996 $aChesterton$93834053 997 $aUNINA