Jan 13, 2014 | Author - Ron Dart
Stephen Leacock and T.S. Eliot: Meeting of Minds – by Ron Dart Stephen Leacock is known, by most Canadians, as an important literary humourist (with a gentle Swiftian bite) and political economist. Most do not realize that Leacock wrote some fine books on...
Dec 18, 2013 | Author - Ron Dart
Voegelin is a lodestar to thinking men who seek a restoration of political science on the classic and Christian basis. – Anthony Harrigan Modest doubt is a beacon of the wise. – Shakespare When I was doing my undergraduate...
Nov 7, 2013 | Author - Ron Dart
Erasmus and Luther: The Final Fray The real problem, however, was not in accepting the authority of Scripture. The real problem was the authority of the interpretation of Scripture. Luther, objected Erasmus, “constantly...
Oct 28, 2013 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim (Rocky Mountain Books, 2013). Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine, Under every grief and pine, Runs a joy with silken twine. It is right it should be so, We were made for joy and woe, And when this we...
Sep 25, 2013 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Frank Schaeffer, AND GOD SAID, “BILLY” (Outskirts Press, 2013). Frank Schaeffer is, probably, the most prolific Christian writer in the last two decades who has, directly and clearly, addressed the dysfunctional nature of the conservative evangelical family in...