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Saint Francis of Assisi - Part One

Uncommon Sense - The Official Podcast of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The Age of Chesterton

I think for starters, it might be good to kind of try to contextualize the book a little bit in terms of Chesterton's career anyway. This is sort of what I would call Chesterton's mature period. Not to say he was kind of immature in the earlier days when he was writing wonderful great works like Orthodoxy in 1908. But with those later works, things like St. Francis of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas and then ultimately his autobiography, there's just this kind of nice flow of thought.

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