What is the one great startling statement that man has made since he spoke his first articulate word? It is that really and even recently, or right in the middle of historic time, there walked into the world the invisible being about whom the thinkers make the theories and the mythologists hand down myths, the Man Who Made the World.
Here is the book that converted C. S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity. This history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity is to some extent a conscious rebuttal of H. G. Wells' Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary origins of humanity and the mortal humanity of Jesus. Whereas Orthodoxy detailed Chesterton's own spiritual journey, this book illustrates the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilization. A book for both mind and spirit.