Oct 23, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Louis Markos, Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology through Christian Eyes (Classical Academic Press, 2020). There can be little doubt that the challenge, burden, and vocation of Louis Markos has been to make it abundantly clear that classical western...
Oct 13, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Ron Dart Paul Zizka, Aloft: Canadian Rockies Aerial Photographs (RMB, 2021). There are photographic books on the Canadian Rockies worthy of a few scans and there are superb books on the Canadian Rockies—such is Aloft. The title and subtitle offer the curious the...
Oct 5, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review of Stephen Hui, Destination Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia (Greystone Books: Vancouver, 2021). Foreword by Cecilia Point I have before me a few first edition books (collector’s items I assume) that were pioneering guide books in their day:...
Sep 30, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Robert D. Sider (edited), Erasmus on the New Testament, (University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2020). Mark Vessey (edited), Erasmus on Literature: His Ratio or “System” of 1518/1519, (University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2021). Erasmus was too good a humanist to live...
Aug 26, 2021 | Book Reviews
Every now and then a book comes into my life that puts me in a happy dilemma: I want to lend it to all my friends, but I don’t want it to leave my house. Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey is a labour of love by Illich’s long-time friend and co-conspirator, David...
Aug 5, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
A.M. Allchin, Participation in God: Forgotten Strand in Anglican Tradition (Morehouse-Barlow, 1988). Arthur Macdonald “Donald” Allchin (1930-2010) was one of the most significant Anglican theologians of the 20th century, and his ever deeper probes into the classical...
