British journalist, novelist, and Christian apologist who converted to Catholicism and developed Distributism — a third way between capitalism and socialism — while writing some of the most paradoxical and entertaining theological prose in English.
Orthodoxy: a defense of Christianity as the only philosophy that corresponds to the full range of human experience. The Man Who Was Thursday: a metaphysical thriller. Father Brown: the detective priest who understands criminals because he understands human nature theologically. Distributism: property should be widely distributed — a Catholic social philosophy opposing both capitalism and state socialism.
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