Reading Chesterton helped Lewis deal with the problem of self-love and pride, both conceptually and personally. It was an important contribution to Lewis’ conversion to Christianity. Lewis cited Chesterton’s book The Everlasting Man as the best popular defense of the Christian position that he was aware of (see Image 2). Gandhi immediately translated it into Gujarati and used it as the basis of his influential 1909 pamphlet/book, Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule).Ĭ. Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly affected by Chesterton's September 18, 1909, column in the Illustrated London News in which he argued for a specifically Indian solution to the subcontinent’s problems. His play Magic was a favorite of Ingmar Bergman who adapted it into his film The Magician (1958). Eliot, Mahatma Gandhi, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and Ronald Knox. Chesterton was considered a spiritual mentor by a remarkable list of figures including C.S. Literary and social critic, historian, journalist, playwright, novelist, Catholic apologist, theologian, debater, and mystery writer, G.K. O'Connor recounted their relationship in his 1937 book, Father Brown on Chesterton, which was published shortly after Chesterton's death. During the making of the film, a small boy mistook Guinness for an actual priest, an event that may have played a part in Guinness's later conversion to Roman Catholicism.Ĭhesterton based the character on Father John O’Connor, a parish priest in Bradford, England who was important to Chesterton’s conversion to Catholicism. as The Detective, stars Alec Guiness and Peter Finch. The film Father Brown (1954, directed by Robert Hamer), released in the U.S. He was featured in radio and television programs, including in a thirteen-episode series that appeared in both the United Kingdom and in the United States. Father Brown has an extensive and illustrious presence, both in the original form and adaptations, including a German character. The lead character in fifty-two short stories, Father Brown solves his crimes through strict reasoning more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details, making him a vivid counterbalance to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read and admired. In popular culture, the Father Brown series is classic (see Image 1). He wrote thousands of newspaper essays for the Daily News, London Illustrated News, and his own newspaper, G. He was a prodigious author who wrote more than eighty books, contributed to hundreds more, composed hundreds of poems and short stories, wrote five novels, and penned several plays. Chesterton was one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary voices. Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s most significant work for our project is St.
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