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CENTRE FOR FAITH AND CULTURE and Chesterton
Study Centre
6a King Street, Jericho, Oxford OX2 6DF
Director: Stratford Caldecott, MA
(Oxon.)
Email: scaldecott@ThomasMoreCollege.edu
Tel. 01865 552154
Associate Director: Leonie Caldecott, MA
(Oxon.)
The Centre for Faith and Culture, including the Oxford editorial offices of Second
Spring and Second Spring Books,
represents the UK outreach programme of Thomas
More College in New Hampshire. The Center's research is intended to
contribute to the renewal of Christian culture and education. For history and
location, scroll down this page.
Events
2008
Summer
Schools
The Mystery of Shakespeare's
Sonnets
Scott
Hahn in the UK
Ecumenical
Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary: David Fagerberg lecture
2009
Summer Schools [details to follow]
A Brief History
Second Spring started to appear in 1992 as a quarterly cultural
supplement in the American magazine Catholic World Report. In 1994 the
editors, Stratford and Léonie Caldecott, founded a research centre in Oxford
(first at Westminster College and later at Plater College) called the Centre for
Faith & Culture, linked both to The Chesterton Review and the
international review Communio. The Centre also maintained the G.K.
Chesterton Library created by Mr Aidan Mackey. In 2001 Second Spring
started to appear as an independent journal twice a year, with an associated web
site.
In 2002, after the demise of Plater College, the G.K. Chesterton
Institute, a non-profit educational organization founded by Rev. Ian J. Boyd CSB
and based in New Jersey, merged with the Centre for Faith & Culture to
create the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture, and took on
publication of Second Spring along with the supervision and support of
the G.K. Chesterton Library at 6a King Street in Oxford.
In 2006, after the Chesterton Institute ran out of funds to
support the work in Oxford, Stratford and Léonie, together with their colleague
David Clayton, founded a company called ResSource in Oxford to develop
educational projects in the spirit of Second Spring.
Finally, in 2007, publication of the journal and financial
support of the Centre for Faith and Culture in Oxford was taken on by The Thomas
More College of Liberal Arts as part of a wider partnership with Stratford and Léonie
Caldecott that extends also to book publishing and the development of courses in
Oxford. The Oxford Centre of Thomas More College still maintains the G.K.
Chesterton Library (which may be viewed by arrangement).
MANIFESTO
"I myself am working in defence of civilization side by
side with men who call themselves Agnostic, Anglican, Methodist. I trust that in
the end they will realize the name of the home they are defending. But they are
all defending that home. They are defending marriage, which is either
impregnable or it is nothing. They are defending freedom, an essential attribute
of the dignity of man. They are defending the sinner, who knows jolly well that
he is a sinner, from those who would classify him as a mental defective or a
superman. They are defending property as the essential insignia of freedom. This
is the work for rationalists defending the rights of man; and it happens,
curiously enough, to be the work for Catholics in the service of the kingdom of
God." G.K. Chesterton, The Revival I Want, 1933.
Archive
material on past history of the Centre.
The Oxford Centre is located above the new Oxford
art gallery
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