Jul 7, 2010 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
The “External Philosophy”: The Fathers and Platonism It is a commonplace of modern scholarship that the Fathers of the Church, Latin and Greek, were Platonist, with exceptions of Sts Leontios of Byzantium, John of Damascus and Gregory Palamas who were ostensibly...
Mar 25, 2010 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Book Reviews by Brad Jersak E. Jane Doering and Eric O. Springsted, The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil (Notre Dame: UND Press, 2004. Alan Mendelson, Exiles from Nowhere: The Jews and the...
Jan 8, 2010 | Author - Brad Jersak
"THE USES OF FREEDOM–A WORD AND OUR WORLD" As I was reading an old essay (1956) by the Canadian philosopher-prophet George Grant on the varied uses of the word freedom in his day, I saw that it was due for a post-9-11...
Nov 2, 2009 | Author - Brad Jersak
DISCERNMENT: TESTING MY OWN VOICE In recent days I have been thinking about our dialogues with God and how we weigh them. I started noticing that when the prayer conversation alternates: God, then Brad, then God, then Brad, and son on, I was diligent to test what God...
Jun 13, 2009 | Author - Brad Jersak
Reconciled to What? Personal and Public Reconciliation in Canadian Aboriginal Context by Brad Jersak with thanks to the Honourable Iona Campagnola Recently, I was honoured to attend a gathering hosted by the Lytton First Nation, entitled ‘Bright New Day’ Workshop. The...
