Chesterton, in this extended book-length essay telling the story of history with credit to H. G. Wells for his Outline of History, proves within and beyond reason that God is not dead, He is not merely divine and infinite, and He is not just Everlasting, He is human among us in the cave. Yes, there is an echo of Plato in that statement, but as Chesterton writes, the living doctrine of Jesus is more than a philosophy (of idealism or any other ism), and is in fact more than … more