Jan 5, 2016 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Ashley John Moyse, Reading Karl Barth, Interrupting Moral Technique, Transforming Biomedical Ethics There are those who labour long and hard in the world of Barthian scholarship (disputing and debating how Barth is to be read and interpreted) but never,...
Dec 24, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
Yes, I have often thought of the resemblance between our faces. I had not associated Genet with it, not knowing what he looks like. I suppose the person I most resemble, usually, is Picasso. That’s what everybody says. Still I think it is a distinction to look like...
Dec 24, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
William Everson as Grim Reaper – photo: JANJAAP DEKKER Outside of Father Merton—he (REF Larsson) is perhaps the best contemporary US Catholic poet. (Letter from Kenneth Rexroth to Thomas Merton, August 28 1950) William Everson is probably the most...
Dec 15, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Andrew Klager, ed., From Suffering to Solidarity: The Historical Seeds of Mennonite Interreligious, Interethnic, and International Peacebuilding (Pickwick Publications, 2015) The publication of From Suffering to Solidarity is a must read plough to...
Dec 14, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
If Thomas Merton (1915-1968) can be legitimately viewed as the most prominent Christian mystic of the latter half of the 20th century, then Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) can be seen as the leading Christian mystic of the first half of the 20th century. Merton and...
Dec 6, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
For it was a witty and a truthful rejoinder which was given by a pirate to Alexander the Great. The King asked the fellow, ‘What is your idea, in infesting the sea?’ And the pirate answered with uninhibited insolence, ‘The same as yours, as in infesting the earth! But...
