Stratford Caldecott was a Catholic author, editor, publisher, and blogger.
19 Facts About Stratford Caldecott
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Stratford Caldecott's work spanned subjects as diverse as literature, education, theology, apologetics, economics, environmental stewardship, sacred geometry, art, and culture.
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Stratford Caldecott's books include Secret Fire, Radiance of Being, Beauty for Truth's Sake, All Things Made New, and Not as the World Gives.
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Stratford Caldecott was a founding editor of the online journal Humanum and a contributor for several online and print journals.
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Stratford Caldecott was inspired by the Catholic author JR R Tolkien and became known as a Tolkien scholar.
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Stratford Caldecott was born in 1953, in London, England, to parents who had left South Africa in 1951.
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Stratford Caldecott's father was a publisher with Penguin Books, which fuelled Stratford's love of reading.
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Stratford Caldecott taught a course called "Christianity and Society" at Plater College in Headington, Oxford.
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Stratford Caldecott served as a commissioning editor for the Catholic Truth Society.
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Stratford Caldecott became the founding editor of the journal Humanum, under the aegis of the Washington DC John Paul II Institute.
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Stratford Caldecott was a co-director of Second Spring,.
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Stratford Caldecott's articles appeared in Oasis, the National Catholic Register, Touchstone, This Rock, Radical Orthodoxy Journal, The Chesterton Review, Communio and Parabola.
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Stratford Caldecott was a senior contributor to The Imaginative Conservative.
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Stratford Caldecott organized conferences such as "Beyond the Prosaic" on the reform of the Liturgy and "Eternity in Time" on Christopher Dawson's contribution to the Catholic idea of history.
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Stratford Caldecott became an authority on the Christian themes in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
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Stratford Caldecott was a contributing editor to A Hidden Presence, the Catholic Imagination of JRR.
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Stratford Caldecott 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".
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Stratford Caldecott loved the fight between good and evil, and the theme of hope that the comics portrayed.
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Stratford Caldecott is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford, near Tolkien's grave.