Jul 22, 2013 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Hans Boersma, Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa: An Anagogical Approach (Oxford University Press, 2013). There is definite tug and pull, jostling and clashing in theology, the church and world in the early years of the 21st century. The...
Jul 20, 2013 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
James Doyle, Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada, 2002 This book has tried to suggest the literary significance of many Canadian writers who were unjustly ignored or condemned because of their...
Jun 10, 2013 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Anna Yin, Inhaling the Silence: Poems (Mosaic Press, 2013). Hannah Arendt, in her classic tome of political philosophy, The Human Condition, highlighted, in an acute way, how the West had given itself to a driven and hyper active existence (vita activa)....
Feb 15, 2013 | Book Reviews
Nicholas Wolterstorff. (2011). Justice in Love. Grand Rapids Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011. A review. Henk Smidstra. Feb. 14, 2013 Wolterstorff’s latest book, Justice in love, is written in his usual philosophically logical...
Aug 19, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
West-East Divan – The Poems, with “Notes and Essays”: Goethe’s Intercultural Dialogues (2010), with commentary by Martin Bidney. Goethe’s book is a pathbreaker, a boundary-crossing intercultural poetic dialogue—one of the most notable and far...
Aug 7, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Herman Hesse (1877-1962) was one of the most conscious spiritual seekers in his time and one of the finest and most consistent European doves in an age of two world wars and an ethos of overt hawkishness and militarism. Hesse fled Germany to Switzerland because of his...
