Oct 13, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Ron Dart Paul Zizka, Aloft: Canadian Rockies Aerial Photographs (RMB, 2021). There are photographic books on the Canadian Rockies worthy of a few scans and there are superb books on the Canadian Rockies—such is Aloft. The title and subtitle offer the curious the...
Oct 7, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart
The contemplative tradition within the West tends to define the spiritual journey in three phases: purgative, illuminative, and unitive. This classification tends to ignore the fact that the contemplative journey has substantial political, social, and economic...
Oct 5, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review of Stephen Hui, Destination Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia (Greystone Books: Vancouver, 2021). Foreword by Cecilia Point I have before me a few first edition books (collector’s items I assume) that were pioneering guide books in their day:...
Sep 30, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Robert D. Sider (edited), Erasmus on the New Testament, (University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2020). Mark Vessey (edited), Erasmus on Literature: His Ratio or “System” of 1518/1519, (University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2021). Erasmus was too good a humanist to live...
Aug 5, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
A.M. Allchin, Participation in God: Forgotten Strand in Anglican Tradition (Morehouse-Barlow, 1988). Arthur Macdonald “Donald” Allchin (1930-2010) was one of the most significant Anglican theologians of the 20th century, and his ever deeper probes into the classical...
Jul 30, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Monika B. Hilder, Sara L. Pearson & Laura N. Van Dyke (eds.), The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). There has been, within Canada, a committed history of interest in the...
