The preeminent Catholic apologist of this period was surely Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936). His Orthodoxy, published in 1908, some fourteen years before he became a Catholic, set a new tone by its freshness of style, wit, and literary elegance. The book describes the journey by which the author himself came to be convinced of the truth of Christianity, as expresed, for example, in the Apostles Creed....Chesterton was a great debater whose writing exposed the sham and pretense of secular ideologies. He moved his readers by his humor and his obvious joy in faith. He made them laugh with him at discovering the goodness hidden at the heart of things.
-A History of Apologetics
-Avery Cardinal Dulles
[Just for clarification, the actual section on Chesterton is longer than this snippet I provided, more like a page or two long]
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