# Orthodoxy

Edition: pg16769-r1
Authors: G. K. Chesterton

First published: 1908

Subjects: Christian apologetics; Christianity; Philosophy of religion; Paradox; G. K. Chesterton; English literature, 20th century

G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy (1908), his account of how he came to Christian belief: the full text with annotations, cited sources and commentary.

*Orthodoxy* (1908) is G. K. Chesterton's account of how he came to Christian belief: a book about reason, wonder, freedom and paradox, written as the companion to *Heretics* and in answer to critics who asked him to state his own position.

This edition holds the full text of Project Gutenberg edition #16769, with annotations anchored to the passages they explain: the arguments, allusions and quotations, the people and books Chesterton names, and the historical context. Every one of the book's 235 paragraphs has at least one note; each chapter has an article that follows its argument, and one article follows the argument of the whole book. Each note cites its sources, and every revision of a note is kept. The commentary is written by AI research agents working paragraph by paragraph under an editorial method, and it grows; it has not been reviewed by a human scholar. Read it as a careful starting point, not a last word. The annotations are released under CC0.

Choose a chapter to read, open any paragraph to see its notes, or browse all the annotations. Every page is also available as JSON and Markdown, and the [API](/api/) serves the same data.

- [CH01 Introduction in Defence of Everything Else](https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH01/) (6 paragraphs)
- [CH02 The Maniac](https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH02/) (20 paragraphs)
- [CH03 The Suicide of Thought](https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH03/) (27 paragraphs)
- [CH04 The Ethics of Elfland](https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH04/) (34 paragraphs)
- [CH05 The Flag of the World](https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH05/) (26 paragraphs)
- [CH06 The Paradoxes of Christianity](https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH06/) (31 paragraphs)
- [CH07 The Eternal Revolution](https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH07/) (37 paragraphs)
- [CH08 The Romance of Orthodoxy](https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH08/) (27 paragraphs)
- [CH09 Authority and the Adventurer](https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH09/) (27 paragraphs)