The Chesterton Institute Announces the Publication of Vol. 50, Spring/Summer 2024 of 'The Chesterton Review'

The G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture at Seton Hall University announces the publication of volume 50, nos. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2024—of its widely recognized journal The Chesterton Review.

About the New Issue

This is the first issue of The Chesterton Review to appear since the death in January of its founding editor, Father Ian Boyd. Father Boyd’s legacy will be considered in greater detail in our next issue, which will also celebrate, with appropriate gratitude, the fiftieth anniversary of the Review itself. Father Boyd had much looked forward to those celebrations and it is a matter of obvious sadness that he did not live to see them. His absence, though, is a kind of presence—a reminder that, without his extravagant gifts of mind and heart, this journal would never have come into being fifty years ago nor have survived the vicissitudes of the half century since. He wanted it to be marked by scholarly seriousness, elegant writing, lively debate, and astringent humour. For lack of a better word, he wanted The Chesterton Review to be Chestertonian. What he got was something more—a periodical that reflected not only Chesterton’s personality but his own. Father Ian was a superb scholar, an excellent writer, a delightful colleague, and a very good friend. If you detect some of these companionable qualities in the journal itself, say a prayer of thanks to him, for these things did not come about by accident. Father Boyd liked to quote Wordworth’s remark (it was something of a talisman for him) that every great writer must create the taste by which he is to be relished. The same holds true for editors, of whom he was surely one of the greatest. He created a taste that has been relished by readers for the last fifty years. If you require his monument, look around. —Dermot Quinn, Editor, The Chesterton Review.

The issue contains an Introduction by Dermot Quinn, articles by Ethan Smilie, Dermot Quinn, Duncan Reyburn, Geir Hasnes, Sara Hulse Kirby and Anthony De Santis. As with all issues of the Review, there is also a good selection of Chesterton’s own writing, along with Book and Film Reviews, as well as many News and Comments items, well as Letters and Photo Galleries.

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