May 23, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart
George Grant was drawn to Martin Heidegger for the simple reason that Heidegger was, probably, one of the most severe critics of the modern way of doing philosophy and the western understanding of mind and what it means to think. Heidegger was convinced that...
May 1, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry, Eerdman’s Publishing 2011. Hans Boersma has done it again. Heavenly Participation is, in many ways, a compact, succinct and incisive synthesis of Boersma’s earlier books,...
Mar 26, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart
Janus, Terrorism and Peacemaking 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...
Mar 24, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review: Compassionate Fire: The Letters of Thomas Merton & Catherine de Hueck Doherty (Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 2009) ed. Robert Wild. I owe much to Catherine Thomas Merton Father Louis, in some strange mysterious way I never...
Feb 22, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart
The Jewish Tradition, at its noblest and finest, has bequeathed to the Western Tradition a high and noble ethical vision. The oral prophets such as Elijah and Elisha never flinched from staring down power when those in power used it in a way that abused...
Feb 3, 2011 | Author - Lazar Puhalo, Author - Ron Dart
A video symposium on religio-political incendiary language from the murder of Hypatia to our current crisis. David Goa asks, ‘Is there a way to hold to a serious faith commitment without demonizing those that genuinely disagree with us?’ In this interview,...
