The Unbelief of Father Brown Free Audiobook by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Father Brown's Unbelief (Version 2)
GK Chesterton (1874 – 1936)
These eight Father Brown mysteries depart from Chesterton's two previous collections – The Innocence of Father Brown and The Wisdom of Father Brown – in that most are set in America and/or feature American characters.
Father Brown is a nondescript, shy, poorly dressed and clumsy Catholic priest – and an exceptionally talented detective. He does not shine despite, but because he is a humble, calm and ordinary Catholic priest. Because of his personal qualities, he is often underestimated, or even ignored, by professionals, people of higher status, or less reticent personalities. Yet he surpasses them all with his habit of observing and making rational sense of the ordinary, of what is, for most people, the invisible. He does not neglect science and experimentation, but he relies largely on the habit of introspection and on the psychological knowledge he acquired by working with the poor, the working classes, by listening to their confessions and witnessing both true penitence and true evil.
It overturns the approach of Sherlock Holmes, which focuses on facts allowing theoretical deductions. His detective methods reflect his personality, as his intuition transforms mundane, seemingly unimportant facts into ordinary, prosaic explanations that explain otherwise puzzling mysteries.
– Summary by Kirsten Wever
Genre(s): Crime and detective fiction
French language
Originality and humor characterize the plots of these clever detective novels. The mysteries are solved by the priest-detective, Father Brown. His application of astute common sense to unravel a succession of crimes and strange events deprives them of the supernatural element that the gullible attribute to them.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer[2], philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and artistic critic. He has been nicknamed the "prince of paradox".[3] Time magazine observed his writing style: "Wherever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories, first carefully turning them inside out./"
Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagreed with him recognized the broad appeal of works such as Orthodoxy and The Everstanding Man.[4][6] Chesterton regularly presented himself as an "orthodox" Christian and came to increasingly identify this position with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as the successor to Victorian authors such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin.
GK Chesterton (1874 – 1936)
These eight Father Brown mysteries depart from Chesterton's two previous collections – The Innocence of Father Brown and The Wisdom of Father Brown – in that most are set in America and/or feature American characters.
Father Brown is a nondescript, shy, poorly dressed and clumsy Catholic priest – and an exceptionally talented detective. He does not shine despite, but because he is a humble, calm and ordinary Catholic priest. Because of his personal qualities, he is often underestimated, or even ignored, by professionals, people of higher status, or less reticent personalities. Yet he surpasses them all with his habit of observing and making rational sense of the ordinary, of what is, for most people, the invisible. He does not neglect science and experimentation, but he relies largely on the habit of introspection and on the psychological knowledge he acquired by working with the poor, the working classes, by listening to their confessions and witnessing both true penitence and true evil.
It overturns the approach of Sherlock Holmes, which focuses on facts allowing theoretical deductions. His detective methods reflect his personality, as his intuition transforms mundane, seemingly unimportant facts into ordinary, prosaic explanations that explain otherwise puzzling mysteries.
– Summary by Kirsten Wever
Genre(s): Crime and detective fiction
French language
Originality and humor characterize the plots of these clever detective novels. The mysteries are solved by the priest-detective, Father Brown. His application of astute common sense to unravel a succession of crimes and strange events deprives them of the supernatural element that the gullible attribute to them.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer[2], philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and artistic critic. He has been nicknamed the "prince of paradox".[3] Time magazine observed his writing style: "Wherever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories, first carefully turning them inside out./"
Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagreed with him recognized the broad appeal of works such as Orthodoxy and The Everstanding Man.[4][6] Chesterton regularly presented himself as an "orthodox" Christian and came to increasingly identify this position with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as the successor to Victorian authors such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin.
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