Nov 17, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
November 18 2011 Dear Ron,A quick word of thanks for your wonderfully generous and stirring review. I’m specifically glad that you flagged up the ecumenical character of the book as it emerged. Thanks so much.Yours EverRowan WilliamsArchbishop of Canterbury...
Oct 2, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
C.S. Lewis wrote his evocative missive, The Great Divorce: A Dream, in response to the universalism of one of his mentors, George Macdonald, and as a reply of sorts to William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Lewis walked the extra mile in The Great Divorce to...
Sep 28, 2011 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Brad Jersak on "Her Gates Will Never Be Shut" with Peg Peters Peg Peters of Nexus interviews Brad Jersak (listening prayer guy) on his book, 'Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell and the New Jerusalem.
Sep 12, 2011 | Book Reviews
Well, I got through 9/11… I preached on Eph. 1:10 (as scheduled) about God’s Wonderful Plan to reconcile all things in heaven and on earth under Christ… I tried to somehow tie this to “remembering well” – with insights from...
Aug 25, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Thomas Merton, The Behavior of Titans (New York: A New Directions Book, 1961). St. Justin Martyr refers to Herakleitos, along with Socrates, as a “Saint” of pre-Christian paganism…the logos of Herakleitos seems to have much in common with the Tao of Lao-tse as...
Jul 31, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
John Watson, Listening to Islam with Thomas Merton, Sayyid Qutb, Kenneth Cragg and Ziauddin Sardar: Praise, Reason and Reflection (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2005). How is the post-secular pluralist west to make sense of Islam? There has been,...