Tale of a Criminal Mind Gone Good

In this short and creative book, theologian Nathan Lefler places G. K. Chesterton and René Girard in conversation on the art of being deceived.

The modern effort to push aside or mythologize the Judeo-Christian inheritance, Lefler argues, is not progress but a fog. Girard saw that restoring that inheritance to its rightful place would clear the air so that people could breathe and reason well again, and Chesterton, with his genius for paradox and his fondness for detective stories, shows just how that clearing happens.