The Chesterton Review Announces the Publication of its 50th Anniversary Issue

The G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture at Seton Hall University is proud to announce the publication of its 50th anniversary issue - volume 50, nos. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2024—of its widely recognized journal, The Chesterton Review.

About the New Issue

With this issue, The Chesterton Review turns 50. In May 1974, the centenary year of Chesterton’s birth, Father Ian Boyd and a number of other Chestertonians met at a conference at Spode House in England where they conceived of an association and a journal to keep fresh the memory of a great writer. The Chesterton Society was the association, The Chesterton Review the journal. Launched in Canada a few months later, the Review was a nicely produced, modestly proportioned, conspicuously attractive small magazine worthy of its large subject. Now, half a century later, based in the United States, bulkier in volume, equally attractive, unchanged in essential character, it is still going strong, a monument not only to Chesterton but also to the founding vision of fifty years ago. It is also a monument (should you require it) to Father Boyd. "If anyone cares to buy a cake and festoon it with enough candles to light a large room, let me be the first to applaud. Joy is the gigantic secret of the Christian, Chesterton noticed in Orthodoxy. This is a genuinely joyful occasion." –Dermot Quinn, Editor. 

The issue contains an Introduction by Dermot Quinn, articles by Russell Sparkes, Adam Schwartz, Dermot Quinn, Salvador Antuñano Alea, Allan Carlson, Richard M. Liddy, James P. McGlone, Lawrence E. Frizzell and Silvia Coll-Vinent Puig. As with all issues of the Review, there is also a good selection of Chesterton’s own writing, as well as pieces by Reginal Jebb and Maurice B. Reckitt, along with Book and Film Reviews, many News and Comments items, Letters and Photo Galleries and a selection of archival photographs.

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About The Chesterton Review:

Founded by Father Ian Boyd in 1974, and since 2020 edited by Professor Dermot Quinn, The Chesterton Review is the journal of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture and has been widely praised for both its scholarship and for the quality of its writing. It was founded in 1974 by Father Ian Boyd, C.S.B. to promote an interest in all aspects of Chesterton’s life, work, art, and ideas, including his Christian apologetics. It includes a wide range of articles not only on Chesterton himself, but also on the issues close to his heart in the work of other writers and in the modern world. It has devoted special issues to C.S. Lewis, George Bernanos, Hilaire Belloc, Maurice Baring, Christopher Dawson, Cardinal Manning, the Modernist Crisis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Fantasy Literature, Special Polish Issue, Special Agrarian Issue, Special Charles Dickens issue, a Special Stanley L. Jaki issue, and many others. It is published twice annually (two double issues).

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