{"id":2751,"date":"2009-09-17T16:26:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2009-09-17T16:26:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T20:26:29","slug":"perkin-responds-to-chrusch-on-chesterton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/17\/perkin-responds-to-chrusch-on-chesterton\/","title":{"rendered":"Perkin responds to Chrusch on Chesterton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2756\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/g-k-chesterton-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"g-k-chesterton\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/g-k-chesterton-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/g-k-chesterton-813x1024.jpg 813w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/g-k-chesterton.jpg 1573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Clayton Chrusch comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2009\/09\/17\/frye-and-chesterton-i\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russell&#8217;s post earlier today<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Was Frye being unfair or am I completely naive?<\/p>\n<p>Chesterton wanted to give his audience clear answers and Frye did not. Frye witheld answers because he didn\u2019t want his audience to be stuck with them. Chesterton wanted to give his audience answers, not because he wanted his audience stuck with them and not because he considered himself the greatest authority on anything and not because he considered his own views to be in their final state, but because he thought that, if people were honest, the truth could take care of itself, and that a clear and honest answer backed by reason is as likely to yield truth through participation in a dialectic process as a reticent answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Russell responds:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clayton, I think (and have attempted to argue in an essay a few years ago) that Frye did not see the positive side of the appeal of tradition and orthodoxy in matters of religious belief. Perhaps in part it was his Methodist upbringing, perhaps the spectacle of Catholic fascism, which he comments on several times, but he doesn\u2019t seem to have had much sense of what Chesterton terms \u201cThe Romance of Orthodoxy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean O\u2019Grady has written an interesting account of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=0upgnSa2RD8C&amp;pg=PA175&amp;dq=frye+and+the+word+frye+and+the+church#v=onepage&amp;q=frye%20and%20the%20word%20frye%20and%20the%20church&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Frye\u2019s relationship with the United Church of Canada<\/a>, showing that he didn\u2019t find it much easier to get on with it than with the Catholic Church. She writes \u201cIf one searches the diaries and notebooks for evidence of Frye\u2019s attitude to his clerical role, one may well be startled by the negativity of his remarks\u201d (<em>Frye and the Word<\/em>, p. 176).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Chrusch comments on Russell&#8217;s post earlier today: Was Frye being unfair or am I completely naive? Chesterton wanted to give his audience clear answers and Frye did not. Frye witheld answers because he didn\u2019t want his audience to be stuck with them. Chesterton wanted to give his audience answers, not because he wanted his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Perkin responds to Chrusch on Chesterton - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/17\/perkin-responds-to-chrusch-on-chesterton\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Perkin responds to Chrusch on Chesterton - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Clayton Chrusch comments on Russell&#8217;s post earlier today: Was Frye being unfair or am I completely naive? 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