Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
By Charles Tayler (Harvard University Press 2002.) Reviewed by Ron Dart. Charles Taylor is very much a significant Canadian court philosopher of the Enlightenment Liberal project. Taylor, as an apologist and defender of Enlightenment Liberalism, strategically so,...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
"I suppose all my life I have fought against obscurantism! For me the true intellectual is a simple person who knows how to be close to nature and to ordinary people. I tend to therefore shy away from academic poets and academic critics. They miss the...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Hugh McCullum. Toronto: ABC Publishing, 2004, 544 pages. Reviewed by Ron Dart. “Liberalism was, in origin, criticism of the old established order. Today, it is the voice of the establishment.” —George Grant The time has come, gratefully so, when the rich and varied...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Chalmers Johnson, New York: Henry Holt, 2000, 268 pp. On the eve of the new bombing campaign against Iraq, President Bush said the United States had done nothing to deserve Iraqi hostility. This book begs to differ. The author is a specialist on Japan and Asia, and a...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
There has been a great deal of interest, in the last decade, by many Christians, in returning to the Classic phase of the Christian Tradition. The Patristic heritage (of the Latin West and Greek East) is held high and warmly honoured and respected. This turn comes as...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
"Clark H. Pinnock is one of theworld’s best-known and most creative and controversial theologians… Since the 1970s Pinnock has pioneered a now widespread school of Christian thought called “open” or “free-will” theism." —Barry Callen, Clark H. Pinnock:...
