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Father Aidan Nichols on GKC

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Father Aidan Nichols’s book G.K.Chesterton, Theologian, has now at last been published by Darton Longman and Todd. Those who heard Fr Aidan at our July conference talking on GKC as a Doctor of the Church will have had a foretaste of what will undoubtedly be an important milestone in the endless struggle to get Chesterton taken seriously as a major figure in the history of Christian thought.

The following is DLT’s  sales pitch.

Dominican Theology celebrates Chesterton

Fr Aidan Nichols, the well-known Dominican theologian’s latest book, looks at theology from a new perspective. Nichols, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, explains how GK Chesterton, despite being a journalist and comic writer, was also a theologian, not just in his overtly religious works, but in all that he wrote. As well as providing an introduction to the life of this fascinating author, the book ends up being a kind of systematic theology for the nervous – a chance to learn about theology without having to really study theology.


 

 

 


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Books by Chesterton & Belloc

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

The Summer catalogue of St. Philip’s Books, Oxford, has just been published, and it reveals that they have a substantial collection of volumes by Chesterton and Belloc, and other Catholic writers of the period, including Ronald Knox and R.H.Benson. (see www.stphilipsbooks.co.uk). These will be on sale at our conference on July 4, details of which are on our own website. So:  an additional reason for coming.

-William Oddie

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Books in Richmond

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Dr William Griffiths writes: ‘Is it feasible to have announcements on the website, of the kind which in former days I would have sent to the Quarterly Editor, such as: Houben’s Bookshop (new and second-hand) of 2 Church Court, Richmond, Surrey (tel. 020-8940 1055) has acquired a large collection of GKC, Belloc (including Chesterbellocs) and general Catholiciana, which is currently being unpacked and priced. The prices seem very reasonable, eg £10 for The Coloured Lands, which I bought to give to a friend. Church Terrace is an alleyway between George Street and Paradise Road. 5 minutes from Richmond Station (train and underground) ; 1 minute from the mediaeval / Georgian Church of St Mary Magdalene’.

We don’t have a suitable page on the website (yet): but as an inexperienced blogger feeling his way, it occurs to me that we can publish anything we like on the blog. So here it is. The blog can be not just a place for solemn reflections on the state of the world, but a general noticeboard for what’s going on, a bit like a parish magazine. So: any contributions are welcome.

–William Oddie

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