Orthodoxy · Character
Jesus Christ
The figure at the center of the faith the narrator is circling back toward, invoked less as a doctrine than as the shape reality keeps taking.
major
Also known as Christ, Jesus
First appearance: orthodoxy
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Christ is referenced as prophesying Gothic architecture when He said the stones would cry out, and as the personal God who leads to the city of virtues.
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He stands behind every argument in the book as the thing being approached, the fixed point the narrator's wandering is finally measured against. The tension he embodies is the one the narrator keeps returning to: that…
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The emotional and psychological peak occurs when Chesterton reveals the "silent swerving from accuracy by an i…
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