The G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University in collaboration with the Society of G. K. Chesterton is pleased to announce an online conference on the theme of "Chesterton's Conversion: A Centenary Conversation." A conversation with Dale Ahlquist, President of the Society of G. K. Chesterton, and Dr. Dermot Quinn, professor of history and editor of The Chesterton Review. Moderated by Mrs. Gloria Garafulich-Grabois, Director, of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture.
About the event
This year marks the 100th anniversary of G.K. Chesterton's reception into the Roman Catholic Church. Conversion was one of the most important events of Chesterton's life. It was also significant in the life of the Church itself, giving Catholics cause for celebration and encouraging other people to consider taking the same step. In fact, one hundred years later, Chesterton is still helping men and women to become Catholics. In the words of Dale Ahlquist, one of the world's leading Chestertonians and himself a Chesterton convert, "People who encounter his writings are drawn to his faith. They want what he has."
In this online conference, Dermot Quinn and Dale Ahlquist will explore Chesterton's conversion in its personal and historical context, exploring its meaning for him and for the Catholic world in general. What lessons can be drawn from it? How does it resonate today? Are we still living, in some sense, in the Age of Chesterton?"
About the Speakers
Dale Ahlquist is President of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, creator and host of the EWTN series "G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense," and Publisher and Editor of Gilbert magazine. He is the author of six books and has edited fifteen. After helping start the first Chesterton Academy, a top-rated Catholic classical high school in Minnesota, fifteen years ago, he is now the head of the growing Chesterton Schools Network, which now includes over 50 high schools in five countries.
Dermot Quinn, D.Phil. is Professor of History at Seton Hall University and Editor of The Chesterton Review. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and New College, Oxford, where he was awarded a doctorate in 1986. He has written extensively on Chestertonian themes, has authored three books The Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life (Rutgers University Press, 2004)(winner, New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance, Non-fiction Book of the Year, 2005); Patronage and Piety: The Politics of English Roman Catholicism, 1850-1900 (Stanford University Press/Macmillan, 1993) and Understanding Northern Ireland (Baseline Books, Manchester, UK, 1993 and many articles and reviews in the field of British and Irish history.
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