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The G.K. Chesterton
Institute, a not-for-profit educational
organization incorporated in the United
States, Canada and Great Britain, is
located at
Seton Hall
University, South Orange, New
Jersey, and it has an office in Oxford,
U.K.
It's 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.
Chesterton's call for a deepened moral
and social imagination speaks loudly to
the cultural crises of our own time.
The Institute's work consists of
conferences, lecture series, research
and writing. It is responsible for the
publication of
The Chesterton Review, a widely
respected Journal. In addition, the
Institute promotes Chestertonian
thinking through television, radio, the
press, and the stage. This commitment is
not narrow or exclusive. On the
contrary, because of his versatility,
Chesterton's reach is wide. The
Chesterton Review
has devoted special issues to C.S.
Lewis, George Bernanos, Hilaire Belloc,
Maurice Baring, Christopher Dawson,
Cardinal Manning, the Modernist Crisis,
Japanese Christian writers, Ethics and
Economics in Post-Communist Europe.
Chesterton, in other words, stands at
the centre of a much wider Catholic and
Christian culture.
Seton Hall
The home of The
Chesterton Institute and The
Chesterton Review
is Seton Hall University, South Orange,
New Jersey. 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 40 countries.
 Seton
Hall's Catholicity is expressed in
multiple ways - through liturgy, prayer,
social action, and the work of the
classroom. Under the direction of
Monsignor Richard Liddy, the Center for
Catholic Studies (founded 1996) seeks to
explore the various dimensions of the
Catholic tradition - theological,
cultural, historical and social - and to
provide an integrated understanding of
the world in the light of that
tradition. Within the aegis of the
Center for Catholic Studies is the
Institute on Work which attempts to
apply Catholic social teaching to the
problems of the contemporary world. Such
is the setting for the Chesterton
Institute. In the spirit of John Henry
Newman, an outstanding English Catholic
of the nineteenth century, the Center is
a place of research, teaching and
service. It is fitting that an Institute
and journal dedicated to one of the most
remarkable English Catholic writers of
the twentieth century should be part of
this Center.
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