{"product_id":"chestertons-tavern","title":"Chesterton's Tavern: A Great Writer's Thoughts on Life and Things of Wisdom","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eIf we sat down with Chesterton in a tavern today, he would say very much the same things he said one hundred years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/I-157.pdf?v=1644342373\"\u003eLook Inside the Book\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/canonpress.com\/app\"\u003eListen on Canon+\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a time when intellectuals and politicians were all telling the world that science had advanced us beyond Christianity, an enormously fat man in a cape with a walking stick laughed at them and refuted them with brilliant prose and witty one-liners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChesterton’s Tavern\u003c\/em\u003e imagines what Chesterton would talk about if he were at ease in an English pub (which in fact is something he did enjoy doing). Kevin Belmonte shows that Chesterton’s insights are as true today as they were then. Chesterton was equally comfortable talking about fiction, myths, fairy tales, history, science, politics, and theology, because he saw them all as part of the strange world God had given us. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Christ, everything holds together, and so we should not be surprised at the strangeness of the world or the strangeness of the Christian faith. So sit back and let Chesterton regale you with his wisdom. You will come away wiser.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The tavern plays an important place in the history of literature, theology and ideas. Chesterton’s Tavern, as appropriately portrayed by historian Kevin Belmonte, is a homely place, comfortably situated for a refreshing and truly restorative introduction to the wisdom, wit, and remarkably relevant vision of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Belmonte’s short but satisfyingly deep draft of vintage Chesterton can help us see that the essayist, critic, novelist, poet and popular theologian is for the ages. This book captures how Chesterton somehow carries no less than the wonder and secret of the universe in his farsighted yet down-to-earth paradoxes, parables and observations.” —Colin Duriez, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Inklings \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kevin Belmonte has given us, in this slim yet robust volume, a warm welcome to join a conversation in medias res at the Fleet Street Tavern with that master of conviviality, G.K. Chesterton. With characteristic intellect, wit, and tender heart, GKC invites us to sit, raise a flagon, and join the conversation of the ages—resisting our addiction to the zeitgeist of “progress” and to learn from the wisdom of tradition. Yet Belmonte is not offering a notion of tradition as a thing preserved in amber, but a living spirit of love and truth and wonder. With GKC acting as his spokesman, the writer offers us a genuine glimpse of this great man’s vision—The Tavern at the End of the World—wherein all are friends, all raise a glass, all celebrate the greatest joy: the childlike love of God and the great surprise that Truth is a far more wondrous thing than even the wildest fictions can evoke.” —Bruce Herman, Lothlorien Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts, Gordon College\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"\\\"When a husband has been chronically unfaithful to his wife, to say that he remains a husband is not to approve of his infidelity. It is the basis of the disapproval. Perhaps his wife should divorce him, but, until she does, he is a husband. No one would look at the pattern of his adulteries, and then say, “Oh, well, at least he is married.” The fact that he is married compounds the sin, and in no way lessens it. In the same way, for an overt unbeliever to deny the deity of Jesus Christ is a great sin. But it is a worse sin for a baptized believer to do so, and for an ordained minister to reject the gospel in this way is far worse still. Such treachery should make us angrier; the fact that additional covenantal vows were broken ameliorates nothing.\\nBranches in Christ that bear much fruit are pruned and blessed. Do they have communion with those branches that bear no fruit, and which will be cut off and burned? They do not have a common future, but they do have a common present place on the same vine. To change the image slightly, together they partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree. And this means that true ecumenical dialogue with unfaithful Christians should consist of solemn warnings.\\nAt the same time, we should see that our disapproval of fellow covenant members is an objective disapproval. We no longer disapprove because their “lack of regeneration” has been weighed in the balances of our discernment and been found wanting.\\\" ~ from the book\"}'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"\\\"When a husband has been chronically unfaithful to his wife, to say that he remains a husband is not to approve of his infidelity. It is the basis of the disapproval. Perhaps his wife should divorce him, but, until she does, he is a husband. No one would look at the pattern of his adulteries, and then say, “Oh, well, at least he is married.” The fact that he is married compounds the sin, and in no way lessens it. In the same way, for an overt unbeliever to deny the deity of Jesus Christ is a great sin. But it is a worse sin for a baptized believer to do so, and for an ordained minister to reject the gospel in this way is far worse still. Such treachery should make us angrier; the fact that additional covenantal vows were broken ameliorates nothing.\\nBranches in Christ that bear much fruit are pruned and blessed. Do they have communion with those branches that bear no fruit, and which will be cut off and burned? They do not have a common future, but they do have a common present place on the same vine. To change the image slightly, together they partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree. And this means that true ecumenical dialogue with unfaithful Christians should consist of solemn warnings.\\nAt the same time, we should see that our disapproval of fellow covenant members is an objective disapproval. We no longer disapprove because their “lack of regeneration” has been weighed in the balances of our discernment and been found wanting.\\\" ~ from the book\"}'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Belmonte\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eDefiant Joy: The Remarkable Life and Impact of G. K. Chesterton \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e William Wilberforce: A Hero for Humanity\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the John Pollock Award. He also served as lead historical consultant for the movie \u003cem\u003eAmazing\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eGrace\u003c\/em\u003e. Belmonte lives with his wife Kelly and son Sam in New England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/B-105.pdf?2719\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eAUTHOR: Kevin Belmonte\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ePUBLISHER: Canon Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePAGE COUNT: 118\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBINDING: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIZE: 5x8\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 10: 1954887205\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781954887206\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePUB. 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