How long does it take to read Orthodoxy?
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton takes about 2 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 52 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1874. 156 pages, about 42,900 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 551 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Orthodoxy is G. K. Chesterton's self-described spiritual autobiography, written as a companion to his earlier Heretics and in answer to a critic who wanted to see his own theology stated. Rather than asking whether Christianity can be believed, he explains how he personally came to believe it. He presents the faith as the answer to a riddle posed by human needs, which pull against one another, and not as an arbitrary truth handed down from outside experience. Along the way he treats paradoxes as support for the worldview and contrasts it with materialism and skepticism.
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Subjects: Apologetics, Christianity, History, Essence, genius, nature, Evidence, Nonfiction
