Stratford Caldecott (26 November 1953 - 17 July 2014) was a Catholic author, editor, publisher, and blogger. His work spanned subjects as diverse as literature, education, theology, apologetics, economics, environmental stewardship, sacred geometry, art, and culture. His books include ''Secret Fire'', ''Radiance of Being'', ''Beauty for Truth's Sake'', ''All Things Made New'', and ''Not as the World Gives''. He was a founding editor of the online journal ''Humanum'' and a contributor for several online and print journals. He was inspired by the Catholic author

J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philology, philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was ...

and became known as a

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Early life and education

Stratford Caldecott was born in 1953, in London, to parents who had left South Africa in 1951. The family espoused no particular religious beliefs. As a child, he was sickly and bedridden, and developed a close relationship with his mother. His father was a publisher with

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. As a teenager he fell in love with America through his exposure to comic books, and their portrayal of the fight between good and evil, and the theme of hope. Between Dulwich and university he went to America, earning money as a 'mother's help' and stayed first with a family in New England before touring the continent by Greyhound bus. After a year, he attended

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on scholarship and studied Philosophy and Psychology. Caldecott says that at the age of fourteen he had what he terms "a philosophical insight" that there was more to the universe than matter and energy. His metaphysical samplings at Oxford led him to seek a religious tradition. Shortly after graduating, he became a member of The Bahá'í Faith. He later explored

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and

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, and began a correspondence with philosopher , author of numerous books on spirituality. After taking his degree, Caldecott pursued a career in publishing and education as a senior editor for the publishers

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, and

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. In 1977, he married fellow student Leonie Richards. The ceremony was held in an Anglican ceremony, in deference to her family. He and his wife had three daughters. Caldecott came to realize that the stories which had informed his early youth, stories of

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and the

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, the Quest of the

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's ''

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'', and

's ''

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'' were reflecting a Christian worldview. "All along, my imagination had been built on a Christian foundation, and I had never noticed it before. I knew now that in some sense, on some level, I was already a Christian." His reading then turned to

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and

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. In 1980 he was baptised into the Catholic Church. This was not well received by his father, who viewed Catholicism as "worse than

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Career

Caldecott taught a course called "Christianity and Society" at Plater College in Headington, on the other side of Oxford. He was a G. K. Chesterton Research Fellow at

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. His devotion to Chesterton led to his becoming something of an expert on him. He also served as a commissioning editor for the

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. From 2010, he and his wife Leonie served as co-editors of the UK and Ireland edition of ''Magnificat''.Jones, Kevin J., "Catholic cultural renewal advocate Stratford Caldecott mourned", ''Catholic News Agency'', 18 July 2014
/ref> He became the founding editor of the journal ''Humanum'', under the aegis of the Washington DC

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Centre for Faith & Culture

In 1994 the Caldecotts founded a research centre in Oxford called the Centre for Faith & Culture (CFC), associated with ''

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'' and the international review ''Communio''. Its newsletter, the ''Faith & Culture Bulletin'', was offered free of charge. The Oxford Centre was initially a partnership between

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and the Edinburgh theological publishers 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 Aidan Mackey. In 1998, after Westminster College was acquired by

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, the CFC moved to

Plater College Plater College was an adult education establishment which was based in Oxford, England. College history The college was founded in 1922 by the Rev. Leo O'Hea, S.J. (1881–1976), director of the Catholic Social Guild, in memory of the Father ...

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, maintaining its activities with partial support from T&T Clark and from the G. K. Chesterton Institute, founded by Rev. Ian J. Boyd, publisher of ''The Chesterton Review''. In 2002, after the 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

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in New Jersey with its Oxford Centre in King Street, Oxford. After 2006 Seton Hall ceased to support the Centre in Oxford and it became independent again.

''Second Spring''

Caldecott was a co-director of ''Second Spring'', (named after

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's famous sermon of 1852, in which Newman predicted a revival of Catholicism in England). ''Second Spring'' initially appeared in 1992 as an 8-page quarterly supplement in the American ''Catholic World Report''. In 2001 ''Second Spring'' merged with the Newsletter of the Centre and started to appear as an 80-page journal twice a year. The Caldecotts, together with the artist David Clayton, started a company called "ResSource" to develop educational projects in the spirit of Second Spring, but it ceased trading after Clayton took up a post at the

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in New Hampshire. The Caldecotts, along with their eldest daughter Teresa, eventually founded their own company, Second Spring Oxford Ltd, in order to manage several editorial contracts as well as undertaking their own publishing programme. Thomas More College became the distributor of Second Spring Journal, as well as sending students to a summer school organised by Second Spring in Oxford. Caldecott's blogs "Beauty in Education", "The Economy Project", and "All Things Made New" serve as resource collections on the topics of education, economics and social justice, and perennial wisdom, and served also as forums for a growing network of friends who, under the banner "Second Spring Associates", hoped to expand the reach of his Second Spring work internationally. The work in this direction was temporarily suspended at his death, but in 2017 Leonie used her own funds to re-launch the website at second spring.co.uk, including an online version of the journal, Second Spring Current.

Writing

Caldecott's writing draws on the work of Catholic intellectuals including

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Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereign ...

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, Luigi Giussani, G. K. Chesterton,

, and

. Caldecott's articles appeared in ''Oasis'', the ''

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'', '' Touchstone'', ''

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'', ''Radical Orthodoxy Journal'', ''

'', ''Communio'' and ''

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''. He was a senior contributor to ''

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''. He organized conferences such as "Beyond the Prosaic" on the reform of the Liturgy and "Eternity in Time" on

Christopher Dawson Christopher Henry Dawson (12 October 188925 May 1970) was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century ...

's contribution to the Catholic idea of history.

On Tolkien

was among the writers whose works influenced Caldecott's conversion to Christianity. Caldecott became an authority on the Christian themes in Tolkien's

. Caldecott was a contributing editor to ''A Hidden Presence, the Catholic Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien''. In ''Catholic Literary Giants'',

Joseph Pearce Joseph Pearce (born February 12, 1961), is an English-born American writer, and Director of the Center for Faith and Culture at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee, before which he held positions at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in ...

notes Caldecott's contribution to ''A Hidden Presence'' and recommends the volume as a valuable scholarly contribution to the literature on Tolkien's work. Caldecott's essay, "The Lord & Lady of the Rings", describing Marian influences in Tolkien's work, was cited by Sarah Jane Boss in her work on traditions of Marian doctrine and devotion. ''The Power of the Ring: The Spiritual Vision Behind The Lord of the Rings'' (Crossroad, 2005, 2011) was originally called ''Secret Fire'' when first published by DLT. It was translated into Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and re-issued by Crossroad in an expanded edition in 2012. ''The Power of the Ring'' explores the spiritual, theological, and philosophical meaning of the work – Tolkien's faith, which was influenced by the Oratory of St Philip. The historian

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, in ''

The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia The ''J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment'', edited by Michael D. C. Drout, was published by Routledge in 2006. A team of 127 Tolkien scholars on 720 pages cover topics of Tolkien's fiction, his academic works, his ...

'', calls ''Secret Fire'' "the best of the post-

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Christian works" on Tolkien. Mike Foster, in ''

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'', writes that "this self-described search for 'Tolkien's secret fire' finds it in the author's devout Catholicism". He finds Caldecott's blending of criticism and Catholicism problematic, as "the reader perforce has two subjects to weigh and balance: literary scholarship and theological interpretation". Among other things, Foster notes that

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"fails his last temptation", as it is

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's action that destroys the Ring; he finds Caldecott's interpretation, that "in the end it is not Frodo who saves Middle-earth at all ... nor Gollum, who took the Ring into the Fire. It can only be God himself, ... using even our mistakes and the designs of the Enemy ... to bring about our good". Foster calls this "simply too forgiving of Frodo, whose will fails him".

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, reviewing the book for ''

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'', calls it a "perceptive and well-reasoned book" that examines Tolkien's appeal to people "from Christian to

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". Among these reasons, writes Duriez, is the rooting of his writing in the First World War, and Tolkien's experience of loss and death; and "his love affair with language". Duriez remarks, too, on Caldecott's account of Tolkien's "veneration of Mary" and its impact on the Elf-lady

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and "the angelic

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Death

As a teenager Caldecott had fallen in love with America because of its comic books. He loved the fight between good and evil, and the theme of hope that the comics portrayed. When he was dying from prostate cancer in May 2014, he was too ill to see the latest Avenger's movie, '' Captain America: The Winter Soldier'' in the cinema and he was not expected to survive long enough for the Blu-Ray release. His daughter, Sophie Caldecott Lippiatt, used an online campaign to persuade the producer

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and distributor Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures to send a copy so that he could watch it at home. Many actors who had portrayed Marvel characters posted selfies in support. Marvel arranged an exclusive advanced screening on DVD for Caldecott at his home. Caldecott's final thoughts on life and faith, death and eternal life were presented in an essay in the online journal ''The Imaginative Conservative''. His funeral Mass was celebrated at the Oxford Oratory on 31 July 2014. He is buried in

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, Oxford, near Tolkien's grave.Dodd, Liz. "Catholic Author to be Buried beside his Inspiration, Tolkien", ''the Tablet'', 21 July 2014
/ref> Many tributes appeared after his death. Kathy Schiffer of

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described Caldecott as "a giant in the Catholic world". Pierpaolo Finaldi, managing editor of the

, noted Caldecott's "encyclopaedic knowledge of the faith". Michael J. Lichens, editor of the website Catholic Exchange, described Caldecott as "...without a doubt, the most powerful voice for Catholic culture in the Anglophone world." David B. Burrell recommends ''The Grandeur of Reason'' and notes particularly Caldecott's approach to the problem of a perception of polarity between faith and reason by explicit attention to culture. Peter Casarella cites "The Marian Dimension of Existence" in Healy and Schindler, eds. ''Being Holy in the World'' in "Public Reason and Intercultural Dialogue" in ''At the Limits of the Secular: Reflections on Faith and Public Life'', William A. Barbieri Jr. ed, Eerdmans 2014.

Awards and distinctions

* Honorary doctorate in theology by the

in Washington DC * Paideia Prize for work in education * A volume of essays in his honour, ''The Beauty of God's House'' was published posthumously in 2014. Canadian Cardinal

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and Nottingham Professor

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contributed.Rowland, Tracey. "Catholic Luminaries Pay Tribute to the Late Stratford Caldecott", ''Crisis'' magazine, 28 August 2014
/ref>

Bibliography

Books

* ''Secret Fire: The Spiritual Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien'' (Darton, Longman, & Todd, 2003) ** revised as ''Power of the Ring: The Spiritual Vision Behind The Lord of the Rings'' (Crossroad, 2005 and 2012) * ''The Seven Sacraments: Entering the Mysteries of God'' (Crossroad, 2006) * ''Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education'' (Brazos, 2009; 2nd edition: 2017) * ''All Things Made New: The Mysteries of the World in Christ'' (Angelico/Sophia Perennis, 2011) * ''Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education'' (Angelico, 2011) * ''The Radiance of Being: Dimensions of Cosmic Christianity'' (Angelico, 2013) * ''Not as the World Gives: The Way of Creative Justice'' (Angelico, 2014)

Booklets

* ''Catholic Social Teaching: A Way In'' (Catholic Truth Society, 2001) * ''Companion to the Book of Revelation'' (Catholic Truth Society, 2008) * ''Catholicism and Other Religions: Introduction to Interfaith Dialogue'' (Catholic Truth Society, 2009)

Books from conferences

Stratford both edited and contributed to these volumes. * ''Beyond the Prosaic: Renewing the Liturgical Movement'' (T&T Clark, 2000) * ''Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Sources of Inspiration'' (Co-editor: Thomas M. Honegger, Walking Tree, 2008) * ''Eternity in Time: Christopher Dawson and the Catholic Idea of History (T&T Clark, 1997)''

References

External links

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