Career Stratford Caldecott




1 career

1.1 center faith & culture
1.2 second spring
1.3 writing

1.3.1 on tolkien







career

in 1998, after westminster college acquired oxford brookes university, caldecott taught course called christianity , society @ plater college in headington, on other side of oxford.


caldecott g.k. chesterton research fellow @ st. benet s hall, oxford. devotion chesterton led becoming of expert on him. served commissioning editor catholic truth society.


from 2010, , wife leonie, served co-editors of uk , ireland edition of magnificat. became founding editor of journal humanum , under aegis of washington dc john paul ii institute.


center faith & culture

in 1994 caldecotts founded research centre in oxford called centre faith & culture (cfc), associated chesterton review , international review communio. newsletter, faith & culture bulletin, offered free of charge. oxford centre partnership between westminster college in oxford @ botley (where physically located) , edinburgh theological publishers t&t clark. 2 partners divided costs between them, , centre s activities equally divided between conferences , publications. before long provided home g.k. chesterton library created mr aidan mackey. in 1998, after westminster college acquired oxford brookes university, cfc moved plater college in headington, maintaining activities partial support t&t clark , g.k. chesterton institute, founded rev. ian j. boyd csb, publisher of chesterton review.


in 2002, after demise of plater college, centre faith & culture merged several years g.k. chesterton institute, creating g.k. chesterton institute faith & culture , based @ seton hall university in new jersey oxford centre in king street, oxford. after 2006 seton hall ceased support centre in oxford , became independent again.


second spring

caldecott co-director of second spring, (named after john henry newman s famous sermon of 1852, in newman predicted revival of catholicism in england). second spring appeared in 1992 8-page quarterly supplement in american catholic world report. in 2001 second spring merged newsletter of centre , started appear 80-page journal twice year.


the caldecotts, artist david clayton, started company called ressource develop educational projects in spirit of second spring, ceased trading after clayton took post @ thomas more college of liberal arts in new hampshire. caldecotts, along eldest daughter teresa, founded own company, second spring oxford ltd, in order manage several editorial contracts undertaking own publishing programme. thomas more college became distributor of second spring journal, sending students summer school organised second spring in oxford.


caldecott s blogs beauty in education , economy project , , things made new serve resource collections on topics of education, economics , social justice, , perennial wisdom, , served forums growing network of friends who, under banner second spring associates , hoped expand reach of second spring work internationally. work in direction temporarily suspended @ death, in 2017 leonie used own funds re-launch website @ second spring.co.uk, including online version of journal, second spring current.


writing

caldecott s writing draws on work of hans urs von balthasar, joseph ratzinger, pope john paul ii, henri de lubac, luigi giussani, g.k. chesterton, john henry newman, jacques maritain, , many, other catholic intellectuals.


caldecott s articles appeared in oasis, national catholic register, touchstone, rock, radical orthodoxy journal, chesterton review, communio , parabola. senior contributor imaginative conservative.


additionally, organized conferences, such as, example, beyond prosaic on reform of liturgy, , eternity in time , on christopher dawson s contribution catholic idea of history, proceedings subsequently published.


in work sophia institute press, catholic truth society, chesterton review, u.s. edition of communio (founded in 1970s hans urs von balthasar), oasis, , many others, served leader interested in catholic engagement culture, respectful inter-religious dialogue, integral human development , ressourcement. christendom awake, whom wrote number of articles, maintains page biographical information, partial bibliography, , links caldecott s work.


on tolkien

j. r. r. tolkien among writers works influenced caldecott s conversion christianity. caldecott became authority on christian themes in lord of rings.



he contributing editor hidden presence, catholic imagination of j.r.r. tolkien. in catholic literary giants, joseph pearce notes caldecott s contribution hidden presence , recommends volume valuable scholarly contribution literature on tolkien s work.
the power of ring: spiritual vision behind lord of rings (crossroad, 2005, 2011) -originally called secret fire when first published dlt, book translated several foreign language editions including spanish, italian, , russian, , re-issued crossroad in expanded edition in 2012. power of ring explores spiritual, theological, , philosophical meaning of work – tolkien s faith, influenced oratory of st philip.
caldecott s essay, lord & lady of rings , describing marian influences in tolkien s work, cited sarah jane boss in work on traditions of marian doctrine , devotion.




^ cite error: named reference bogle invoked never defined (see page).
^ jones, kevin j., catholic cultural renewal advocate stratford caldecott mourned , catholic news agency, july 18, 2014
^ historical background , second spring
^ caldecott, stratford. economy project
^ caldecott, stratford. things made new
^ mammana jr., richard j. recovery of altars , review of beyond prosaic, (stratford caldecott, ed.), edinburgh: t & t clark, 1998, touchstone magazine, january/february 2000
^ eternity in time: christopher dawson , catholic idea of history, (stratford caldecott, , john morrill, eds.), t & t clark international, 2000 isbn 9780567085481
^ cite error: named reference desmond invoked never defined (see page).
^ hidden presence, chesterton press (2003) asin: b000nl05re
^ pearce, joseph. catholic literary giants: field guide catholic literary landscape, ignatius 2014, isbn 9781586179441
^ caldecott, stratford. bibliography , beauty in education
^ caldecott, stratford. lord & lady of rings , touchstone magazine, january/february 2002
^ boss, sarah jane. mary, continuum books 2003






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