G.K. Chesterton Svatý Tomáš Akvinský
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.
Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.
“Světcem může býti člověk jakéhokoli typu, ale vždycky k tomu přistupuje jistý rys, který je zároveň jedinečný i universální. Mohli bychom dokonce říci, že jediná věc, která odděluje světce od obyčejných lidí, jest jeho ochota být zajedno s obyčejnými lidmi. Světec už dávno netouží po vyniknutí; je to jediný typ lepšího člověka, který netrpí povýšeností.”