The Ball and the Cross

G. K. Chesterton

Sep 2015 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

The thrilling allegorical novel from the author of The Man Who Was Thursday and the Father Brown Stories

First serialized in the Commonwealth, G. K. Chesterton’s fantastical third novel opens with a debate between Professor Lucifer and Brother Michael as they soar across the sky above London. Part farce, part theological exploration, The Ball and the Cross soon settles on the story of another pair of contraries. When differences of opinion lead an atheist and a devout Roman Catholic to plan a duel to the death, fate intervenes and propels the two men toward deeper understanding.
 
Widely considered to be one of Chesterton’s most accessible and substantive works, The Ball and the Cross was commended by Pope John Paul I for the profound truths it reveals. Readers for over a hundred years have marveled at the brilliance of this exhilarating tale about belief, nonbelief, and our collective search for the truth.
 
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Ratings and reviews

2 books that I reread by g. k. Chesterton are man alive (on two legs) and the ball and the cross. while C. s. Lewis called George MacDonald his mentor.....lewis's writing style (fiction or non) resembles more Chesterton than macdonald. the ball and the cross has so many deep thoughts like what does it feel like to fall out of an airship and cling to a cross fo thoughtful moments and then to find you not splatted and dead but really ridiculously wonderfully alive. then what would 2 men on polar opposite extremes of thought on Christianity religion and man when being on the run from ??? when forced to live out their beliefs but duel. absurd at times to make you laugh and keep reading then thought provoking as to make you question "how much do I believe what I say I believe."

About the author

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Baptized into the Church of England, Chesterton underwent a crisis of faith as a young man and became fascinated with the occult. He eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and published some of Christianity’s most influential apologetics, including Heretics and Orthodoxy.