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...
Oct 8, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
A. James Reimer died August 28 2010. For those who have not studied with him or read any of his books, he was one of the finest Mennonite thinkers of the 20th century. We have lost two of the best this year with the passing of Clark...
Oct 4, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
I have always believed that scripture stands over all our traditions, including our evangelical traditions. N.T. Wright, Anglican Evangelical Identity: Yesterday and Today (p.11) I don’t think there can be any doubt that J.I. Packer (1926….)...
Oct 2, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
I did my Masters in Christian Studies (MCS) at Regent College from 1979-1981. I was a Teaching Assistant (TA) of Jim Houston, when at Regent, and we had many a lingering and searching discussion about the classics of the Christian contemplative tradition. Jim had...
Sep 24, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
War and Peace (1869) is the Mount Everest of all novels, and Anna Karenina (1877) and Resurrection (1899) stand tall and stately within the towering Himalayan peaks of world literature. It is 100 years this year since Lev Tolstoy died (1910-2010), and many is...
