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Second
Spring
started to appear in print during 1992 as an 8-page quarterly supplement in the
American magazine Catholic World Report. In 1994 the editors Stratford
and Léonie Caldecott founded a research centre in
Oxford
called the Centre for Faith & Culture, associated with The Chesterton
Review and the international review Communio.
The Oxford Centre was initially a
partnership between
Westminster
College
in
Oxford
at Botley (where it was physically located) and the
Edinburgh
theological publisher T&T Clark. The two partners divided the costs between
them, and the Centre’s activities were equally divided between conferences and
publications. Before long it also provided a home for the G.K. Chesterton
Library created by Mr Aidan Mackey.
In 2001 Second Spring merged with
the Newsletter of the Centre and started to appear as an 80-page journal twice a
year.
In 1998, after
Westminster
College
was acquired by
Oxford
Brookes
University
, the CFC moved to
Plater
College
in Headington, on the other side of
Oxford
. There
Stratford
taught a course called Christianity and Society, maintaining the other
activities of the Centre with partial support from T&T Clark and also now
from the G.K. Chesterton Institute, founded by Rev. Ian J. Boyd CSB, publisher
of The Chesterton Review. A new website was developed and maintained by
Mark Armitage.
In 2002, after the sad demise of Plater
College, the Centre for Faith & Culture merged for several years with the
G.K. Chesterton Institute, creating the "G.K. Chesterton Institute for
Faith & Culture", which was eventually based at Seton Hall University
in New Jersey with its Oxford Centre moving to King Street, Oxford.
After 2006 the Centre in Oxford briefly reverted to being independent. Stratford
and Léonie, together with a colleague, the artist David Clayton, started a
company called ResSource to develop educational projects in the spirit of Second
Spring, but ResSource fell victim of the difficult economic conditions, and in
2007 the journal and the Centre formed an association with the Thomas More
College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire, where David now teaches as Artist in
Residence. Students from the College attend a summer school in Oxford, and the
Centre also maintains the G.K. Chesterton Library, making it available to
researchers by arrangement until a permanent home can be found for it. In 2010,
a Second Spring Association was formed to link individuals and organizations who
want to work for the renewal of culture.
Archive material on our
past history
Interview
in 2000
Inspiration
from Newman
An unfinished timeline
The Rose Round
girls’ group
Some associated
publications
Civilization of Love
manifesto
For several years the Centre for Faith & Culture
was merged with the G.K. Chesterton Institute:
http://www.secondspring.co.uk/spring/lazu.htm
http://www.secondspring.co.uk/spring/conference11.htm
http://www.secondspring.co.uk/spring/beaconsfield.htm
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