Orthodoxy

This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics" and to present the positive side as well as the negative. Many critics complained that the earlier book merely criticized current philosophies without offering any alternative; this book attempts to answer that challenge. The author's purpose is to explain not whether the Christian faith can be believed, but how he personally came to believe it. The book is therefore arranged on the positive principle of a riddle and its answer. It first deals with the author's solitary and sincere speculations and then with the startling way in which they were suddenly satisfied by Christian theology. The author regards it as amounting to a convincing creed; if it is not, it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence.