Great commentary on one of the most important Western texts. It's astonishing how incorrect and incomprehensive university education on this text is these days. We are in an age of rebellion against the things Plato is pointing to.
@billmoxon9506
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video!! I've been looking for videos just like this before I begin reading Chesterton for myself. I had to read Mere Christianity several times before I really started appreciating it, I'm expecting Chesterton to be even more challenging to understand well.
@shadetreemech290
10 ай бұрын
It will be.
@FairyPrincessNinja
Жыл бұрын
I just bought the book, I am underlining and highlighting in the book, and still find I’m struggling with it. I am so glad I found this video. Thank you!
@noabaak
2 жыл бұрын
You came from Hollywood to America!
@frederickanderson1860
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine going through the horrors of the 1st& 2nd world war's, and not be unaffected by it . Romanticism sure is not the answer.
@frederickanderson1860
2 жыл бұрын
Even miracles are taken for granted.
@patriciarobles4099
2 жыл бұрын
Excelente
@grmalinda6251
3 жыл бұрын
Cant call him saint bc he had misunderstood health issues.
@Louis.R
3 жыл бұрын
thanks Dale, great missionary work for GK
@gerardocardenas6591
4 жыл бұрын
Was Jesus fully a man? Would this mean that at some point he was a dirty sinner as any real man can be?
@fredgillespie5855
3 жыл бұрын
Gerardo Cárdenas - Jesus gave up being God, was born a human the same as the rest of us, was tempted in all things just as we are yet sinned not. John ch.1: - Hebrews ch.4:15
@gerardocardenas6591
3 жыл бұрын
Thx for your answer. If Jesus “sinned not”, he lacked a very important experience of human nature which is to fail, to make mistakes. It would have been very instructive to see how the son of God handled such a situation.
@eriklucasmusic
3 жыл бұрын
@@gerardocardenas6591 God would not be God if he failed, logically speaking.
@itamorales6580
3 жыл бұрын
@@gerardocardenas6591 it's a good point, Jesus experienced mistakes as a carpenter he could made a measuring mistake, but never broke any God's commandments. In our generation we call mistakes to disobedience because we don't have a objective Law , for instance a man who ia unfaithful to his wife, he thinks, I made a mistake , but in reality he broke his vows before God.
@johnwright1447
3 жыл бұрын
Christ was fully man, yes, just as was Adam before the Fall. It is we who are not fully men, for sin has dirtied us, and taken the fullness of manhood away.
@stiggywiggyable
4 жыл бұрын
The first time I read it, it was as though every previous book I had ever written was in black and white compared to this one in technicolor.
@junacebedo888
4 жыл бұрын
The only book you need if you are stranded on an island
@johnwright1447
3 жыл бұрын
Chesterton himself, when asked what one book he would wish with him when stranded on an island, answered 'A Practical guide to Boatbuilding'
@billmoxon9506
Жыл бұрын
Maybe, but only if one knows the Bible very well before one sets out to sea!
@johnnywilley8522
4 жыл бұрын
Great lecture, I especially love his Enthusiasm.
@maryannchaisson6742
4 жыл бұрын
12/2019...Still true, beautiful and helpful to readers of Chesterton. Thanks 🇨🇦🙏👏
@paulocunha3799
4 жыл бұрын
This guy says East and West are opposite. Really? First of all, this is fake binary oppositions was sown during Crusade and ripped between Colonial period, and now we are harvesting. The Ancient Greeks called Ionians Eastern and mainland Greeks as western Greeks. Abrahamic religions have Eastern origin. Jesus was Asian semitic, the churches were developed first in Alexandria and Syria. Christianity went to India when Jesus was still alive. So how can Christianity and Judaism are western? Besides, long before Christianity, Buddhism reached in the Greek world. in the 3rd century BCE many Greeks became Buddhist monks and went in missionary to Alexandria, Syria and main land Greece. By the second century BC Indo-Greeks became the patrons of Buddhism. So stop nonsense of Christianity. We are Indo-Europeans and our ancestors came from India or at least we are closer to India.
@TehFlush
4 жыл бұрын
Cringe
@DarkPablo
4 жыл бұрын
@@TehFlush yes, cringe indeed. The original commenter is off it.
@yoshimitsu8922
4 жыл бұрын
Well yes, east and west are opposites on a compass. Everyone is in agreement about that
@rougebaba3887
3 жыл бұрын
I suspect you are reading too much into his comment, though I watched the video and didn't catch the speaker saying what you mentioned. But then I watched this video: kzitem.info/news/bejne/yn9t2It8jHeInWU In that video of the same speaker, he does use those words. Comments are turned off on that video, so you may have wanted to post your points here. But with all due respect (and this is a genuine respect) you give a history lesson as to the source of any East/West conflicts. But really the speaker in these videos is talking about ideas and belief systems as they dominated philosophies of East and West and as they were illuminated by GK Chesterton. There is no direct antagonism being addressed, religious or political. This is a compare and contrast between two great religions - Buddhism and Christianity. Within his book "Orthodoxy", Chesterton addresses what was in his day a popular idea that Christianity and Buddhism "are very much alike". Chesterton points out that any similarity between these two great religions is, at best, superficial. He makes the point that the similarities are similarities because the same comparisons my well have been made with almost any and all of the world's religions. But at the very basic worldview level, Buddhism and Christianity are diametrically opposed. They each have very different ways of explaining the world and our place in it. This comparison doesn't come across as antagonistic in the least. It comes across as an interesting exploration by which we might better understand these two great religions. Chesterton goes a bit further and shows what will be the manifestation each of these great religions will have on the world if truly and honestly embraced. As a small example of what Chesterton means in Orthodoxy, Christianity holds that personhood, and subsequently personality, are eternal realities - they really do exist. God made people for a purpose and intends for them to exist in relationship with Him for all eternity. In Buddhism, personality is, at best, an illusion and an illusion best done away with. There is no way to reconcile these two very different ideas. So perhaps that is what is meant by East and West being opposites. In a very simple but tangible way, these two great religions have opposite ways of looking at the world and humanity. Those opposite ideas may or my not lend themselves to outright conflict, but Chesterton's point was simply that these two great religions cannot be reconciled to degree in which they are in any sense compatible with one another. There is no challenge in this simple observation. Nor is there any threat. It's just the way things happen to be between what the speaker generalizes as East and West. As East and West point in opposite directions, so do Christianity and Buddhism. That is all he is saying. As an aside, Chesterton does similar comparisons with other religions and philosophies. Of course as a Christian, he is sympathetic towards his own worldview. In the very same book he makes a practical comparison between the outworking of Christian transcendence concerning God and fallen mankind and the Hindu notions of reincarnation and the caste systems. He points out that the Christian has a reason within his religion to both pity beggars and mistrust kings. And this pity and mistrust can be very useful and noble things in the world. It may give us reason to uplift the poor while deposing tyrants. It may make the world freer and less oppressive. But what in Hinduism can be made to dethrone a tyrant? If a man's station in life is a result of merit in a former incarnation (in any sense) then a ruler is a ruler by his own karma. And likewise, the beggar in his lowly state. The Hindu, at least based on his religious philosophy, can justify both submitting to a tyrant and ignoring a beggar. These are not insults at all. If the Hindu worldview is the way things really are, then submitting to a tyrant and ignoring a beggar seems very reasonable. But if Christianity is true, both are ultimately intolerable.
@paulocunha3799
3 жыл бұрын
@@TehFlush Shame on your intelligence!
@antidepressant11
5 жыл бұрын
is this guy too conservative? dale I mean
@emant9760
3 жыл бұрын
Why do you say that?
@antidepressant11
3 жыл бұрын
@@emant9760 he lives in the past?
@emant9760
3 жыл бұрын
@@antidepressant11 His expertise is someone from 1900. What do you expect? But we know the past so we can bring it to bear on the future. In Orthodox, Chesterton said one can't be conservative in keeping a mailbox white as it will erode. One has to continually repaint the mailbox. So Dale is trying to paint our times with Chesterton's thinking. I for one am thankful to have such thinking help me.
@matthewstokes1608
Жыл бұрын
Antidepressent11 - … Was Christ? Christ is not a myth - He is absolute factual History. It’s 2022. But only because He started time in the year Zero. Think about it. Mindblowing. Only the miracle is real
@autumnbrooke7910
6 жыл бұрын
superb. thank you for sharing.
@winstonbarquez9538
6 жыл бұрын
Two kinds of madness then are idealism and skepticism?
@daneryan7424
4 жыл бұрын
Indeed they are, both ways of not looking firmly and faithfully at reality.
@pagantree
Жыл бұрын
Materialism is also a form of Madness according to chesterosn also
@felicetanka
6 жыл бұрын
we are all romans yet we can't have a moral system based on endless mutual selfishness...indeed.
@ciaran6171
6 жыл бұрын
Apropos the discussion taking place from about 10:00, there is now a move afoot to abandon the story as a way of teaching truths to children and to have them instead ponder great (or small) philosophical questions. So when the teacher tells of Jack selling the family cow for a mere handful of beans the children will justifiably demand to know the sources of this disgraceful slur on Jack's character.
@Zernlakatka
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these videos. They let me understand the books much better!
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