Published 2025
“…Specifically, this study explores the history of Chesterton’s theological development and the nature of his theological output; his understanding of the dogmatic and hierarchic element of the Church; Chesterton’s
ultramontanism; the influence of figures like John Henry Newman on Chesterton’s theology of the Church; the sacramental and graced aspects of Chesterton’s ecclesiology, particularly as they find embodiment and expression in his beloved priest-detective, Father Brown; Chesterton’s understanding of the Church Militant, particularly as it is articulated in his 1911 epic, The Ballad of the White Horse; and the Marian dimension of Chesterton’s ecclesiology, particularly as seen through the aforementioned Ballad and his various Marian poems. …”
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