Category Archives: Klassen

A Reflection on the Canticle of Zechariah

Posted on November 17, 2016 by exec_admin

The following is a reflection on the Canticle of Zechariah (Luke 2:68–79), which one says as part of Morning Prayer. The meditation proceeds line by line, and usually phrase by phrase. It is based on the Latin, which I wanted … Continue reading →

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Darwin’s Pious Idea

Posted on November 10, 2012 by review_ed

Conor Cunningham, Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010. xx + 543. Reviewed by Norm Klassen. Introduction This is an important book. It models a Christian engagement of biology that thoroughly … Continue reading →

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Five Smooth Stones: Towards a mystical theology of nature and grace

Posted on October 3, 2011 by exec_admin

Introduction: The transformation of stones In the past few postings, I have been approaching the theology of nature and grace through Anglicans: John Milbank first, who explicitly outlines contemporary theology’s indebtedness to Catholicism; then Rowan Williams, a wonderful expositor of … Continue reading →

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Lewis for Our Times: Principles of Cultural Apologetics in the Writings of Rowan Williams

Posted on October 3, 2011 by exec_admin

In a posting of several months ago (“Romantic Orthodoxy, Militant Atheism, and a Question of Style,” December 27, 2010), I suggested that Rowan Williams models an attractive style of Christian engagement of secular culture. Here I would like to flesh … Continue reading →

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The Thomistic Challenge of C.S. Lewis’s Sermon “Learning in War-time”

Posted on October 3, 2011 by exec_admin

Introduction Any Christian who aspires to be a student faces two great temptations: the belief that their studies must “add up” to something or that their creative power, either to redescribe or to expose and “deconstruct,” is absolute. Often these … Continue reading →

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The Perils of (post)Postmodernism and the Joy of Incarnational Humanism

Posted on August 22, 2011 by exec_admin

An ecumenical address for Huron University College and St. Peter’s Seminary, London, Ontario Introduction Anyone interested in engaging contemporary culture for the sake of advancing a timely Christian apologetic, as you undoubtedly are, has for some time had to wrestle … Continue reading →

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Romantic Orthodoxy, Militant Atheism, and a Question of Style

Posted on December 27, 2010 by review_ed

In a recent article, “The New Divide: Romantic versus Classical Orthodoxy,” Modern Theology 26 (2010), the Anglican theologian John Milbank, has identified a new divide between “romantic” and “classical” orthodoxy, one which replaces the older divide between theological orthodoxy and … Continue reading →

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The Wound of Knowledge

Posted on November 4, 2010 by review_ed

Rowan Williams, The Wound of Knowledge, 2nd rev. ed., London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1990. The title of this spiritually nourishing and academically challenging book its author draws from the poetry of R.S. Thomas. The Wound of Knowledge offers us … Continue reading →

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When Marxists Defend Christians

Posted on September 13, 2010 by review_ed

Terry Eagleton is a literary theorist and cultural critic, someone who reflects on the nature of literature, what it accomplishes in individuals, reading communities, and culture, as well as how various forces (from the psychological to the political) shape it. … Continue reading →

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