{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"G.K. Chesterton's Conversion and its Augustinian Parallels","description":"On the feasts of Saints Monica and Augustine, Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski trace G.K. Chesterton's long road into the Catholic Church, beginning with his 1903 newspaper battle with Blatchford and McCabe and ending at the sacramental hesitation that held him back until 1922. They show why Chesterton refused to hang his belief on one or two arguments, and why a man for whom every daisy was already a miracle found it hardest to meet God in one particular priest. The takeaway is a habit any reader can practice: reading the world for connections, on the saints' feasts and on every other day of the year. In This Episode:  Why Chesterton fits no single school. He is Augustinian, Thomistic, Franciscan, and Scotistic at once What Chesterton actually told McCabe about the &quot;two great pegs&quot; his conversion supposedly hung on Why fear, not doubt, marked Chesterton's final approach\u2014and how it echoes Augustine's &quot;not yet&quot; The sacramental hurdle for a man who already found God in sunshine and daisies A Chestertonian habit to practice: connecting the unlikely and reading everything for truth  Resources Mentioned:   The Catholic Church and Conversion Orthodoxy  The Man Who Was Thursday The City of God (St. Augustine) Episode art image credit:  Nheyob, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons  Chapters:  00:00: Introduction 00:33: Welcome and Today's Topic 01:48: Why Chesterton Resists Every Label 05:30: The First Conversion and the Blatchford Controversy 10:38: Reading from The Catholic Church and Conversion 12:29: Fear, Not Doubt 14:52: The Sacraments as the Last Step 17:34: Free Will and the Marriage Metaphor 19:39: Augustine's Search and the Grace Behind It 23:09: Restlessness and the Search for Peace 27:07: The Policeman, the Anarchist, and the Fence 33:35: How to Become Chestertonian  FOLLOW US:  Instagram Facebook X  SUPPORT:  Donate Shop  Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios ","author_name":"Uncommon Sense","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/23918\/site","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42544965\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/205408355"}