The Everlasting Man

A CLASSIC OF CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS The Everlasting Man is a Christian apologetics book written by G. K. Chesterton. Published in 1925 it is to some extent a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells The Outline of History disputing Wells portrayals of human life and civilization as a seamless development from animal life and of Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure. Whereas Orthodoxy detailed Chesterton s own spiritual journey in this book he tries to illustrate the spiritual journey of humanity or at least of Western civilization.