Christopher Hitchens and G.K. Chesterton: New Atheist vs. Old Convert
September 23, 2013
The most celebrated of the New Atheists, Christopher Hitchens, spent his dying days writing an acerbic attack on the most jovial Christian convert of the 20th century: G. K. Chesterton. Hitchens accused Chesterton of being both an unserious and sinister thinker. Though he has been dead for more than 75 years, how (if he were alive) might Chesterton have responded to such a bitter parting shot? Amid our post-modern tournament of narratives, we will ask which is the more convincing and compelling—Hitchens' case for unbelief, or Chesterton's defense of what he called the Christian Thing?
