Heretics (book)

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Heretics

Cover of the first edition
Author	G. K. Chesterton
Language	English
Genre	Christian apologetics, philosophy
Publication date	1905
Publication place	United Kingdom

Heretics is a collection of 20 essays by English writer G. K. Chesterton published by John Lane in 1905.^[1] In it, Chesterton quotes at length and argues extensively against atheist Joseph McCabe and delivers diatribes about his close personal friend and intellectual rival George Bernard Shaw, as well as about Friedrich Nietzsche, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and an array of other major intellectuals of his day, many of whom he knew personally. His topics range from cosmology to anthropology to soteriology, and he argues against French nihilism, German humanism, English utilitarianism, the syncretism of "the vague modern", Social Darwinism, eugenics, and the arrogance and misanthropy of the European intelligentsia. Together with Orthodoxy (1908), this book is regarded as central to Chesterton's corpus of moral theology.