May 14, 2010 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
“Testing faith: redeeming Christians from themselves” A Reflective Review of Lucy Huskinson’s Introduction to Nietzsche Nietzsche’s Test of Faith In Lucy Huskinson’s brilliant, all too brief missive, An Introduction to Nietzsche (SPCK 2009), she...
Apr 12, 2010 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Barua, Arati (ed.), Gandhi and Grant: Their Philosophical Affinities. Delhi, India: Academic Excellence, 2010).ReviewI recently received a first edition copy of Arati Barua's collection of scholarly essays comparing and contrasting Canada's George...
Apr 1, 2010 | Author - Brad Jersak
I write this as a reflection on Eric Janzen’s “Prophetic Culture of the Kingdom” (part 4). In pondering your well-thought, well-stated articles on the Kingdom of God, part 4 gave me pause to consider your admittedly biblical use of military and imperial metaphors....
Mar 25, 2010 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Book Reviews by Brad Jersak E. Jane Doering and Eric O. Springsted, The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil (Notre Dame: UND Press, 2004. Alan Mendelson, Exiles from Nowhere: The Jews and the...
Jan 8, 2010 | Author - Brad Jersak
"THE USES OF FREEDOM–A WORD AND OUR WORLD" As I was reading an old essay (1956) by the Canadian philosopher-prophet George Grant on the varied uses of the word freedom in his day, I saw that it was due for a post-9-11...