Chesterton: The Nightmare Goodness of God

“Who better to make sense of G. K. Chesterton’s quarrel with secular humanism? Wood brilliantly helps us navigate the trail Chesterton blazed through our modern Inferno.” –Daniel McInerny, Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Honors College, Baylor University

“Ralph Wood had given us an outstanding contribution to Chesterton scholarship, revealing both the depth of the author’s intellect and the breadth of his imagination.” –Dale Ahlquist, President, American Chesterton Society

“The finest study of Chesterton in many years. It is precisely because Wood has not turned a blind eye to Chesterton’s faults that he has succeeded so powerfully in demonstrating Chesterton’s genius and continued importance for us today.” –David Bentley Hart, author of Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

“Wood has triumphed once again. He shows how great Christian art is often paradoxically dark when conveying the light and he is a superb guide through the gloomy and yet glimmering wonderland of Chesterton’s work.” –Joseph Pearce, Associate Professor of Literature, Ave Maria University and author of Wisdom of Innocence: A Life of G. K. Chesterton

Wood does an excellent job excavating those moments in Chesterton where his Kipling-like jingoism gives way to a more chastened Christian vision that eschews triumphalism, exposes the dangers of a will-to-power mentality, and advocates the extending of hospitality even (and especially) to one’s enemies. — Louis Markos — Reformation 21 blog