Audiobooks by G. K. Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown, Vol. 1 Audiobook

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, a remarkable achievement, turns his hand to the genial but certainly not innocent priest! This collection contains a group of stories from the Innocence of Father Brown, told unabridged.

G. K. Chesterton (Author), David Timson (Narrator)

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The Everlasting Man

Few people had a more profound effect on Christianity in the 20th century than G. K. Chesterton. The Everlasting Man, written in response to an anti-Christian history of humans penned by H.G. Wells, is considered Chesterton's masterpiece. In it, he explains Christ's place in history, asserting that the Christian myth carries more weight than other mythologies for one simple reason-it is the truth.

G. K. Chesterton, G.K. Chesterton (Author), John Franklyn-Robbins (Narrator)

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Orthodoxy

G.K. Chesterton was a journalist, playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, essayist, literary commentator, editor, orator, artist, and theologian. A serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by Robert Blatchford, well-known newspaper editor, impelled Chesterton to seize the gauntlet of refutation. His reply was immensely successful and was the early formation of his convincing credo that is so brilliantly and cogently argued in Orthodoxy, a masterwork that was published just five years later.

G. K. Chesterton, G.K. Chesterton (Author), Fred Williams (Narrator)

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The Innocence of Father Brown, Volume 3

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors, and killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it. The award-winning Colonial Theatre on the Air has dramatized G.K. Chesterton''s Father Brown stories from The Innocence of Father Brown with a full cast, music score, and sound effects. Included in Vol. 3: THE HONOR OF ISRAEL GOW Father Brown and Flambeau find themselves helping Inspector Cardwell at Glengyle Castle, investigating the strange death and burial of the late Earl, a reclusive man who lived as a hermit with only one servant…Israel Gow. THE EYE OF APOLLO Flambeau, the thief-turned-detective, shares an office building with the high priest of a new religion. But is the death of one of his disciples’ murder or a fortunate accident? THE SIGN OF THE BROKEN SWORD A murder is committed using a legendary broken sword. THE THREE TOOLS OF DEATH A man is murdered, a man confesses to the murder and is arrested, but Father Brown doesn''t believe either claim.

G. K. Chesterton (Author), J. T. Turner, J.T. Turner, The Colonial Radio Players (Narrator)

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St. Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. This acclaimed biography of Saint Francis examines the life of a pure artist, a man "whose whole life was a poem." Here is the Saint Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, and who invented the crèche. Yet Francis also acknowledged the mystic responsibility to communicate his divine experience. Chesterton examines the existence of the pure eccentric and the devout mystic in one man, offering an understanding of Saint Francis in both body and soul. It has been said that G. K. Chesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922 because "only the Roman Church could have produced a Saint Francis of Assisi." This biography, published shortly after Chesterton's conversion, is universally considered the best appreciation of Francis' life, one that gets to the heart of the matter. "[Chesterton's] opinions shine from every page. The reader is rewarded with many fresh perspectives on Francis."-Franciscan

G. K. Chesterton (Author), Simon Vance, Simon Vance (Narrator)

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Santo Tomás de Aquino

Chesterton fue un escritor agudo, con mucho sentido común y que conoce el tema con profundidad. En este libro se aprecia la magnitud que tuvo Santo Tomas de Aquino, tanto para la Iglesia como para el mundo. Este sin duda es un libro para leer más de una ocasión. En un breve, e incompleto, resumen podemos decir que : Tomás de fue un teólogo y filósofo católico perteneciente a la Orden de Predicadores, el principal representante de la enseñanza escolástica, una de las mayores figuras de la teología y, a su vez, una de las fuentes más citadas de su época en metafísica. Es conocido también como Doctor Angélico, Doctor Comunis y Doctor de la Humanidad, nominaciones dadas por la Iglesia católica, la cual lo recomienda como la mejor referencia para los estudios de filosofía y teología. Sus obras más conocidas son la Summa Theologiae, compendio de la doctrina católica, la Summa Contra Gentiles, compendio de apología filosófica de la fe católica, que consta de 410 capítulos agrupados en cuatro libros, Catena Aurea, que es un conjunto de comentarios a los Evangelios, entre otros. Asimismo, fue muy popular por su aceptación y comentarios sobre las obras de Aristóteles, señalando, por primera vez en la historia, que eran compatibles con la fe católica. A Tomás se le debe un rescate y reinterpretación de la metafísica y una obra de teología monumental. Fue canonizado en 1323, fue declarado Doctor de la Iglesia en 1567 y santo patrón de las universidades y centros de estudio católicos en 1880. Su festividad se celebra el 28 de enero.

G. K. Chesterton (Author), Miguel ángel Hernández Yépez (Narrator)

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

First published in 1922 and filled with evocative portraits of pre-World War I society, these eight stories from the creator of the Father Brown mysteries recount the adventures of Horne Fisher, a socialite who uses his immense knowledge and powerful deductive gifts to investigate crimes committed on the sprawling country estates of the aristocracy-crimes that must, alas, go largely unpunished due to the greater harm that justice would unleash.

G. K. Chesterton, G.K. Chesterton (Author), Derek Perkins (Narrator)

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Orthodoxy

G. K. Chesterton, G.K. Chesterton (Author), John Lee (Narrator)

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Orthodoxy

In this classic apologetic work, G.K. Chesterson sets out to describe his personal method of finding faith. Viewing human nature as one that seeks the dichotomy of both imagination and reason, he argues that the Christian faith is the only true fulfillment of both of those needs. Chesterson explains that Christianity is the only faith that can answer the basic needs and desires of all humans because it has both in its very structure. A rigid morality combined with an allowance for some interpretation of truth and way of life, Christianity resolves the human need for a life that follows both logic and romance. Chesterson defines Christianity as not only a belief system, but a way of life and the only one that meets all human desires. This series, published by ONE audiobooks, seeks to produce Classic Christian titles read by well known and loved audiobook narrators. ONE takes great care to cast these titles with readers who will provide an unmatched listening experience for these important works. Simon Bubb brings his passion to every performance and is considered to be one of the top audiobook narrators in the industry.

G. K. Chesterson, G. K. Chesterton (Author), Simon Bubb (Narrator)

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Five Detective Stories by G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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THe Invisible Man

Listeners will delight in these masterful chronicles of the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced and engagingly innocent, Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-notch detective, possessing that rarest of all gifts - an intuition that never fails.

G. K. Chesterton, G.K. Chesterton (Author), Ulf Bjorklund (Narrator)

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Eugenics and Other Evils

During the first three decades of the twentieth century, eugenics, the scientific control of human breeding, was a popular cause within enlightened and progressive segments of the English-speaking world. The New York Times eagerly supported it, gushing about the wonderful "new science." Prominent scientists, such as the plant biologist Luther Burbank, were among its most enthusiastic supporters. And the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations generously funded eugenic research intended to distinguish the "fit" from the "unfit."This prophetic volume counters the intellectual nihilism of Nietzsche, while simultaneously rebuking Western notions of progress-biological or otherwise. Chesterton expands his criticism of eugenics into what he calls "a more general criticism of the modern craze for scientific officialism and strict social organization."

G. K. Chesterton, G.K. Chesterton (Author), Derek Perkins (Narrator)

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