Dec 5, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
The name of Erasmus will never perish. John Colet Erasmus has published volumes more full of wisdom than any which Europe has seen for ages. Thomas More What would the Christian Church be like today if the guidance and wisdom of Erasmus in the early 16th...
Dec 2, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
William Nicholls, CHRISTIAN ANTISEMITISM: A History of Hate, (London: Jason Aronson Inc., 1993). Don Lewis, The Origins of Christian Zionism: Lord Shaftesbury and Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland (Cambridge: Cambridge University...
Nov 20, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
This past week the Lower Mainland in British Columbia has been abuzz with a visit by N. T. Wright. Wright has thoughtfully challenged the reformed and evangelical clan to be more deeply reformed and evangelical. Wright’s more catholic approach to the reformed...
Nov 11, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
The opportunity to spend an entire year Sabbatical year reading the theology of the ressourcement movement has been a sacramental gift. Hans Boersma (vii) Hans Boersma has already rendered exquisite and probing yeoman’s duty with...
Oct 16, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
The language of Red Toryism became popular in the mid-1960s when Gad Howoritz suggested that George Grant was a Red Tory. The publication and immediate success of Grant’s, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism (1965), made it abundantly clear that...
Oct 16, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
"George Grant was Canada’s most significant public philosopher." Graeme Nicholson, Athens and Jerusalem: George Grant’s Theology, Philosophy, and Politics (p. 323) 1...