Description We need a new kind of mystic, writes Fr.
Robert Wild; and in The Tumbler of God, he presents a spiritual portrait of G.
Chesterton that convincingly shows why he is precisely the kind of new mystic we need.
Chesterton's mysticism was grounded in an experiential knowledge that existence is a gift from God, and that the only response is a spirituality of gratitude and praise for the unveiled beauty of creation.
What was his 'secret'? It was to love the splendor of.