G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith And Culture at Seton Hall University

Founded by Fr. Ian Boyd in 1974, the Institute’s purpose is to promote the thought of G.K. Chesterton and his circle throughout the United States, and around the world. G.K. Chesterton’s call for a deepened moral and social imagination speaks loudly to the cultural crises of our own time. The work of the Institute consists of conferences, lecture series, research and writing—the work of the Institute is one of recovery. With Chesterton and the tradition he represented, it proposes a re-awakening of the moral and sacramental imagination. The Institute works to give a renewed sense of human dignity, and a re-evangelization of culture.

The Chesterton Review, founded in 1974, has been widely praised both for its scholarship and for the quality of its writing. Edited by Father Ian Boyd, it 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, and a Special Polish Issue. As the interest in Chesterton continues to grow around the world, so does our publication which now publishes annual editions in Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian.

“There really is nothing like The Chesterton Review, and if there ever was, it existed in a bygone Golden Age of journals and magazines,” said Philip Jenkins of Chronicles Magazine. “They, however, are all dead. The Review abides.”

For more information about the Institute, we invite you to visit www.shu.edu/go/chesterton or send an email to chestertoninstitute@shu.edu.

Founded in 1856 by Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley of Newark and named in honor of his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the university has remained true to her vision of Catholic education in the service of community and society. Seton Hall, the oldest and largest diocesan university in the United States, has 10,000 students from over forty countries.