A Chestertonian Conversation with Father Ian Boyd
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
The G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University cordially invites you to join us for a special premiere screening of “A Chestertonian Conversation with Father Ian Boyd.”
The presentation will be streamed online via TEAMS on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 — from 4:00 to 5:30 pm (ET)
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About the event
Father Boyd is an internationally recognized Chesterton scholar, and author of The Novels of G.K. Chesterton (London 1975). For many years, he was Professor of English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan and from 1999-2020 a member of the Department of English at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. He has written and lectured about Chesterton and Chestertonian themes all over the world and he has played a key role in the Chesterton revival worldwide.
The screening will be followed by a conversation/commentary by Father Boyd, Dr. Dermot
Quinn and Gloria Garafulich-Grabois. This video presentation is from a 2013 interview
with Father Boyd. The documentary is a production of the G. K. Chesterton Institute
for Faith & Culture ©2022.
Videography: G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture
Editing: Michael Pisciotta, TLTC, Seton Hall University
Producer & Director: Gloria Garafulich-Grabois
About the Institute
The G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture is located at Seton Hall University,
South Orange, N.J. Founded in 1974 by Father Ian Boyd, C. S. B., its purpose is to
promote the thought of G. K. Chesterton and his circle and more broadly, to explore
the application of Chestertonian ideas in the contemporary world. The Institute’s
work consists of conferences, lecture series, research, and writing. The Chesterton Review, founded in 1974, has been widely praised both for its scholarship and for the quality
of its writing. The journal was founded by Father Ian Boyd, C. S. B., and is edited
by Dr. Dermot Quinn, includes a wide range of articles not only on Chesterton himself,
but 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, Fantasy Literature, a Special Polish Issue, as well as recent special
Croatian, Charles Dickens and Stanley L. Jaki issues. For information about the Institute
or The Chesterton Review please contact chestertoninstitute@shu.edu–website: www.shu.edu/chesterton
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