GK Chesterton’s Defense of “Father Christmas”
Ave Maria in the Afternoon Segments · Marcus B. Peter, Th.D.
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Show Notes
GK Chesteron once wrote that “there is no more dangerous or disgusting habit than that of celebrating Christmas before it comes, as I am doing in this article.” What did he mean? Joseph Pearce is our guest.
Further Reading
G. K. Chesterton and the Death of Christmas
Guest Info
Joseph Pearce is the author of numerous literary works including Literary Converts, The Quest for Shakespeare and Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know. He’s Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative, St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair of Catholic Studies at Thomas More College in Merrimack, NH, editor of the St. Austin Review, and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. Visit his website at jpearce.co.
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