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What
is the Only State that Creates and Loves Its Own Citizens?G.K. Chesterton reminds readers that the family has
survived all attacks
NEWS PROVIDED BY
Carmel Communications
April 21, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2022 /Christian
Newswire/ -- As much as the government seeks to replace marriage,
parenthood, home and education, it has never succeeded in doing so in any
civilization. The family, which came into existence without the help of anyone
or anything, and has continued to exist without the help of outside forces, will
survive, as noted by Dale Ahlquist, the editor of the new book, THE STORY OF THE
FAMILY: G.K. CHESTERON ON THE ONLY STATE THAT CREATES AND LOVES ITS OWN CITIZENS
(Ignatius Press).
Ahlquist is president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, creator and
host of the long-running EWTN series on G.K. Chesterton, and publisher of
Gilbert Magazine. He is considered the greatest living authority on the life and
works of Chesterton.
Chesterton was far ahead of his time when he wrote about the glory of the family
and the ways in which government would seek to destroy it. Society is built on
the family, in all its unglamorous beauty, and Chesterton helps readers to see
this reality with fresh eyes. As he writes: "The first things must be the very
fountains of life, love and birth and babyhood; and these are always covered
fountains, flowing in the quiet courts of the home."
Those who want to protect the family in today's world may think they are the
ones out of touch with normality, but THE STORY OF THE FAMILY assures them they
are the normal ones, that they are fully within their rights and desires to
fight against the forces that seek to destroy marriage and to take away the
right to educate their children.
With piercing wit, the English writer pits all these venerable truths against
the fashions of divorce, contraception, and abortion, along with the troubling
philosophies that have afflicted education and the workplace since the early
twentieth century.
"G. K. Chesterton was not only a great defender of the faith but a great
defender of the family also," said Joseph Pearce, author of Wisdom and
Innocence: A Life of G. K. Chesterton. "This excellent collection of the best of
Chesterton's writing on the family is more needed today than it was in
Chesterton’s own day."
For more information, to request a media review copy or to schedule an interview
with Dale Ahlquist, please contact Kevin Wandra (404-788-1276 or
KWandra@CarmelCommunications.com) of Carmel Communications.
SOURCE Carmel Communications
CONTACT: Kevin Wandra, 404-788-1276,
KWandra@CarmelCommunications.com