The Everlasting Man
G. K. Chesterton takes us through the history of man, rebuking common secular views and presenting the case for the Catholic Church.
License
Public Domain
Originally published
1925
Latest release
Oct 9, 2026
Pages
310
Format
6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm)
Book type
Paperback nonfiction
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Table of Contents
- Prefatory Note
- The Plan of This Book
- Part I: On the Creature Called Man
- I. The Man in the Cave
- Professors and Prehistoric Men
- The Antiquity of Civilisation
- IV. God and Comparative Religion
- V. Man and Mythologies
- VI. The Demons and the Philosophers
- VII. The War of the Gods and Demons
- VIII. The End of the World
- Part II: On the Man Called Christ
- I. The God in the Cave
- II. The Riddles of the Gospel
- III. The Strangest Story in the World
- IV. The Witness of the Heretics
- V. The Escape from Paganism
- VI. The Five Deaths of the Faith
- Conclusion
- On Prehistoric Man
- On Authority and Accuracy