Category Archives: Klassen

Book Launch: Rationality Is… The Essence of Literary Theory (Video)

Posted on June 15, 2022 by exec_admin

At our meeting on Friday, June 10th, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm we discussed excerpts from the recently published book Rationality Is… The Essence of Literary Theory by our very own Norm Klassen. You can purchase the book here. Congratulations Norm! … Continue reading →

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Rationality Is… The Essence of Literary Theory

Posted on May 22, 2022 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, June 10th, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing excerpts from the soon to be published book “Rationality Is… The Essence of Literary Theory” by our very own Norm Klassen. … Continue reading →

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Is Reality Knowable?

Posted on April 6, 2021 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, April 9th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing with Norm Klassen the Dr. Keith Cassidy Lecture given by him entitled “Is Reality Knowable?”

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Liberal Evasiveness

Posted on September 23, 2017 by exec_admin

The Ideas program featuring Jonathan Haidt (on which I commented in a previous post, and to which Haidt has responded) has attracted some attention at work. An administrator has distanced himself from Haidt with an article with the headline, “When … Continue reading →

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Monochromatic Heterodoxy

Posted on September 19, 2017 by exec_admin

On CBC’s Ideas program recently (Friday 8 September), Paul Kennedy interviewed Jonathan Haidt to discuss Haidt’s views on the contemporary university. The program, “The Politics of the Professoriat: Political Diversity on Campus,” can be found here. In the words of … Continue reading →

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The George Grant Reader

Posted on June 8, 2017 by exec_admin

George Grant as a Philosopher of Fittedness for the Contemporary Canadian Situation or Overcoming Our Self-Incurred Immaturity In the autumn of 2016, the Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton spent a study day on George Grant’s book English-Speaking Justice. In this … Continue reading →

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Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ

Posted on June 3, 2017 by exec_admin

I’ve just finished Aaron Riches’ book Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016). All Christians should revisit the Church councils now and again to be reminded of how we’ve been formed over time. As Riches … Continue reading →

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A Reflection on the Canticle of Mary

Posted on June 1, 2017 by exec_admin

This reflection is meant as a companion piece to one I wrote earlier on the Canticle of Zechariah. Reflection on the Canticle of Mary actually ought to precede that on the Canticle of Zechariah. The day, after all, begins with … Continue reading →

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Book Launch: The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision

Posted on March 10, 2017 by exec_admin

You are invited to attend the launch of Norm Klassen’s book “The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselves” on Friday, March 24th at 7:00pm at the Newman Centre Guelph, 325 Gordon Street, Guelph, with … Continue reading →

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Harari on Big Data and the Gap between Homo and Deus

Posted on December 5, 2016 by exec_admin

In late August, just ahead of the publication of his book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow,Yuval Noah Harari wrote an article-length précis of his ideas. One can find it here.

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