WOF 041: G.K. Chesterton, The Evangelist
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We are taking the next few episodes of the show to discuss each of the great men and women featured in Word on Fire's epic new film series, CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players. Today we're focusing on the joyful English journalist and evangelist, G.K. Chesterton. A larger-than-life figure, Chesterton charmed his way into the heart of the modern culture and illuminated the dull philosophy of the age with his clever, Catholic brilliance. Our listener question asks Bishop Barron about praying for intercession from those souls who've not yet been named saints.
*In this episode we include a limited time Word on Fire Show discount on CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players with Coupon Code: FrBrown
Visit PivotalPlayers.com to purchase and act now because this offer expires soon!
Topics Discussed
- 1:30 - Bishop Barron discusses the Pivotal Players World Premier Party
- 2:40 - Who was G.K. Chesterton?
- 5:03 - What is G.K. Chesterton's impact on modern evangelism?
- 6:10 - What inspiration can married laypeople find in Chesterton?
- 7:37 - How was G.K. Chesterton an artistic evangelist?
- 9:21 - Why is Chesterton called a "happy warrior"?
- 10:48 -How did Chesterton separate ideas from people?
- 11:33 - Why did Chesterton love the paradoxical?
- 14:17 - How did Chesterton highlight the vibrant paradoxes of Catholicism?
- 16:45 - What is Chesterton's Orthodoxy?
- 21:56 - What is Chesterton's Everlasting Man?
- 23:48 - How did Chesterton take on religious relativism?
- 27:35 - Listener Question: How do we know when it is appropriate to pray for intersession from the holy departed?
Bonus Resources
- Calendar and Prayer Cards
- Pivotal Players Calendar (Bishop Barron)
- Pivotal Players Prayer Cards (Bishop Barron)
- Books
- Praying with the Pivotal Players (Bishop Barron)
- The Everlasting Man (G.K. Chesterton)
- Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton)
- Study Guides
- CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players - Leader's Guide (Bishop Barron)
- CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players - Study Guide (Bishop Barron)
- CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players - Leaders Kit (Bishop Barron)
- DVDs
- CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players (Bishop Barron)
- Websites
Find bonus links and resources for this episode at http://WordOnFireShow.com and be sure to submit your questions at http://AskBishopBarron.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vott. I'm the host and the content director at Word on Fire. |
| 0:10.0 | And joining us is the founder of Word on Fire. And he's the host of the new film series Catholicism, The Pivotal Players. |
| 0:17.0 | He is Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, we're glad to have you. |
| 0:21.0 | Brandon, always grid me on with you. How are you doing today? |
| 0:24.0 | I'm doing wonderful here in Orlando. The weather's pretty nice. I know other parts of the country are struggling with all sorts of natural disasters, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, but fires on fire. Yeah, out where you are. That's right. |
| 0:37.0 | Hey, before we get further into the episode, I wanted to share an announcement with everybody. |
| 0:43.0 | Most of you know that the pivotal players film series is now available. You can get it at pivotal players.com. But here's something special just for you. |
| 0:51.0 | Only for listeners of this show. So we're not sharing this with anybody on Facebook through our email list. Anywhere only for you. |
| 0:57.0 | We have a special coupon code where if you use this during the next week, you can save $10 on the pivotal players film series. |
| 1:05.0 | So it's an amazing deal. Here's the code. |
| 1:10.0 | Father Brown. Now it's FR, BROWN. So FR, the abbreviation for Father Brown, all one word. |
| 1:19.0 | And you'll know what that means here in a second when we talk about the focus of today's episode. But go to pivotal players.com and use the code FR Brown to save $10 on the pivotal players film series. |
| 1:31.0 | So speaking of pivotal players, Bishop, you recently had the world premiere of the pivotal players there in Los Angeles. So tell us about that event. |
| 1:39.0 | We did actually was in Orange County. So it was at the Christ Cathedral, formerly the Crystal Cathedral. But now it's controlled by the Dices of Orange. |
| 1:48.0 | We had a great gathering about 300 people came to this auditorium. And we had a little reception. And then we showed the Francis episode. |
| 1:57.0 | And that was followed by a wonderful hour with Doug Kack at EWTN. So he has a program called Bookmark. And they did it kind of as a special bookmark. They with the audience in place. |
| 2:08.0 | He interviewed me and Father Steve, who's the CEO of Word on Fire and was of course very involved in the series. And then he also interviewed Matt Leonard, who's the director of the series. |
| 2:18.0 | And it was just a joy. I mean, to be part of that evening and there was great enthusiasm. The episode looked great. It was on a giant screen in that auditorium. |
| 2:26.0 | I was in the first row. So I must say it's a little disconcerting when you see your own head at about 30 feet high. But it would look great. And there was great enthusiasm in the room. |
| 2:39.0 | Today, we're going to continue our series on the pivotal players. We've been devoting one of these podcast episodes to each of the six pivotal players featured in the film series. |
| 2:49.0 | So far, we've done four or five of them. But today we're going to be focusing on the most recent pivotal players. So the one nearest to our time. And that's GK Chester 10. So let's start off with a brief bio of who he was. So who was GK Chester 10? |
| 3:06.0 | Well, he's one of my favorite figures really in the great Catholic tradition. He's a British journalist. And he'd be very happy to claim that title of journalist, someone who wrote for the day. |
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