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About IgnatiusInsight.com
and the Insight Scoop web log
IgnatiusInsight.com and the Insight Scoop weblog are online resources
of Ignatius Press and are meant to assist readers who wish to learn more
about the Catholic Church and her teachings, beliefs, practices, and history.
Each week IgnatiusInsight.com features articles and essays by Ignatius
Press authors, as well as interviews with noted authors such as Fr. Benedict
Groeschel, Joseph Pearce, Peter Kreeft, Roy Schoeman, Glenn Olsen, Donald
De Marco, Benjamin Wiker, and others. Readers will also be able to read
excerpts from new and upcoming releases as well as from Ignatius Press
classics.
The Insight
Scoop web blog features daily commentary from Ignatius Press authors
and staff about theological issues, current events in the Catholic Church,
and a host of related topics.
 Carl
E. Olson is the web editor of IgnatiusInsight.com and the moderator
of the Insight Scoop weblog. Carl is the author of the best-selling Will
Catholics Be "Left Behind"? (2003), selected by the
Associated Press as one of the best religious titles of 2003. He is also
the co-author, with Sandra Miesel, of The
Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code, described
by Francis Cardinal George as "the definitive debunking" of
The Da Vinci Code. Carl is the former editor of Envoy magazine
and has written dozens of reviews and articles for periodicals including
Catholic Parent, Crisis, Envoy, First Things, National Catholic Register,
Our Sunday Visitor, Saint Austin Review, and The Catholic Answer.
You can send your questions and comments to Carl at carl@ignatius.com.
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G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the finest Christian authors and apologists
of the past two hundred years. Raised as an agnostic, he embraced Christianity as a young man, ultimately entering the Catholic Church
in 1922. He wrote hundreds of essays, as well as novels, short stories, poetry, apologetics, literary
criticism, and nearly everything else imaginable. Dale Ahlquist, president and co-founder of the American
Chesterton Society and author of
G.K Chesterton: Apostle of Common Sense, writes, "Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism,
history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology. His style is unmistakable, always marked
by humility, consistency, paradox, wit, and wonder. His writing remains as timely and as timeless
today as when it first appeared, even though much of it was published in throw away paper." Read more
about the life and work of this remarkable thinker, author, and apologist.
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The Quest For Shakespeare: The Bard
of Avon and the Church of Rome
by Joseph Pearce
Highly regarded and best-selling literary writer and teacher, Joseph Pearce presents a stimulating and vivid biography of the
world's most revered writer that is sure to be controversial. Unabashedly provocative, with scholarship, insight and keen observation,
Pearce strives to separate historical fact from fiction about the beloved Bard. Shakespeare is not only one of the greatest
figures in human history, he is also one of the most controversial and one of the most elusive. He is famous and yet almost
unknown. Who was he? What were his beliefs? Can we really understand his plays and his poetry if we don't know the man who
wrote them? These are some of the questions that are asked and answered in this gripping and engaging study of the world's
greatest ever poet. The Quest for Shakespeare claims that books about the Bard have got him totally wrong. They misread the
man and misread the work. The true Shakespeare has eluded the grasp of the critics. Dealing with the facts of Shakespeare's
life and times, Pearce's quest leads to the inescapable conclusion that Shakespeare was a believing Catholic living in very
anti-Catholic times.
Read more about The Quest for Shakspeare,
an interview with Joseph Pearce, or
Chapter One from the book.
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