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G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense with Dale Ahlquist |
| 1. | Program Name: | An Introduction to G.K. Chesterton |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | An overview of Chesterton, the prolific Catholic writer who "said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else." | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 2. | Program Name: | Orthodoxy |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | "Orthodoxy" is perhaps Chesterton's greatest work, yet he stumbled across orthodox belief almost by accident. | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 3. | Program Name: | Heretics |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | Chesterton's book "Heretics" takes on modernism, and the skeptic's refusal to use his brain to come to conclusions. | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 4. | Program Name: | What's Wrong With the World |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | Chesterton addressed the main problems of his day, which are the main problems of our day. His solution is to return to the Christian ideal. | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 5. | Program Name: | The Catholic Church and Conversion |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | "It's one thing to conclude that Catholicism is good and another to conclude that it is right. It is one thing to conclude that it is right, and another to conclude that it is always right." | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 6. | Program Name: | The Thing: Why I am a Catholic |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | Chesterton contrasts "the Thing" (the Catholic Church) to all other things-worldly philosophies, business, nationalism, Protestantism, agnosticism, etc. | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 7. | Program Name: | The Well and the Shallows |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | The Catholic Church is the well-everything else is the shallows. | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 8. | Program Name: | St. Francis of Assisi |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | Chesterton tells about the man who "cared chiefly for the best kind of giving which is called thanksgiving." | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 9. | Program Name: | St. Thomas Aquinas |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | "To this question, 'Is there anything?' St. Thomas begins by answering 'Yes'; if he began by answering 'No', it would not be the beginning, but the end." | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 10. | Program Name: | The Everlasting Man |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | Chesterton writes about Christ and the things people say about him. | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 11. | Program Name: | The Outline of Sanity |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | Chesterton's book ,"The Outline of Sanity", exposes the problems with modern economic systems. | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 12. | Program Name: | The Superstition of Divorce |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | "The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason." | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 13. | Program Name: | Eugenics and other Evils |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | Chesterton explores the evils of racism, euthanasia, and abortion under the euphemism of "Eugenics". | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 14. | Program Name: | Fr. Brown |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | This episode gives an overview of Chesterton's popular "Fr. Brown" detective stories, including vignettes featuring Fr. James R. Kolp as Fr. Brown. | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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| 15. | Program Name: | Chesterton for Today |
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| Series Name: | G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense | |
| Host: | Dale Ahlquist explains the relevance of Chesterton's writings to today's world. As Chesterton said, "A society is in decay when common sense has become uncommon." | |
| Date Produced: | 5/1/2000 | |
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