ABSTRACT
Chesterton introduced a distinctive natural theology that contained wonder as its primary and fundamental characteristic. For him, the natural world revealed God’s creative act, and Chesterton’s purpose was to awaken people out of their existential slumber in order to consider anew the uniqueness and astonishment of the created order. Through a disposition of childlike humility, as well as the employment of the literary devices of paradox and estrangement, he aimed to clear the clouded lens through which his readers had come to view the natural world in order that they might seek the divine being responsible for its origin and existence.
