Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
“You will find this again and again about anything that is really Christian: every one is attracted by bits of it and wants to pick out those bits and leave the rest. That is why we do not get much further: and that is why people who are fighting for quite opposite...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
Clark Pinnock is, probably, one of the most important and one of the most controversial Canadian evangelical theologians. Pinnock’s early years (1960s) as a theologian were fairly conventional. Many evangelicals were walking the extra mile at this period of time to...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) and Alan Watts (1915-1973) are often seen as two of the more important Western religious thinkers who called the frenetic West back to a deeper and more contemplative way of being. Both men emerged from the Christian Tradition, both men...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
"I concentrated on the Sermon on the Mount. It was startling to me that I could not recall a sermon ever preached on this manifesto of Christ’s new social order in my church when I was growing up. I vaguely remembered some talk about the Sermon on the Mount not...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
There are many ways to interpret and present the Christian Tradition, but, sadly so, two traditions have come to dominate the discussion. It will be the burden of this essay to point out that such simplistic readings of the Christian Tradition distorts the reality of...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
People have understood and defined the Christian Prophetic Tradition in many ways during the history of the Church. In short, several sub-traditions have developed within the much larger and more epic Christian Prophetic Tradition, each with its own unique tendencies,...
