Bøger af Brad Jersak

Simone Weil and George P. Grant were among the 20th century's top political theologians. Weil, a philosopher-activist-mystic from France, was the Christian mystic who refused to join the Church but nevertheless, influenced the Vatican II popes with her radical openness.George Grant, one of Canada's top three thinkers, once said that next to the four Gospels, Weil was his highest authority.This book is a series of essays in political theology, exploring some of their key themes and how their work inter-relates. This book explores in depth, for the first time, how their 'theology of consent' informs their political philosophy and a public ethic of the Cross.Table of ContentsPreface / 1Part 1 - SIMONE WEIL: RED VIRGIN1. Simone Weil: George Grant's Diotima / 52. Stages of Weil's Mystical Ascent / 193. Competing Conceptions of God in Biblical Religion / 49Part 2 - GEORGE GRANT: RED TORY4. Grant and the Matrix: Complex of Ideologies / 715. Grant and the Matrix: Dialogue Partners / 756. Finding His Voice: Conversion to Lament / 83Part 3 - DIVINE CONSENT7. Wrath and Love as Divine Consent / 109Abbreviations / 123Bibliography of Sources Consulted / 127

George P. Grant (1918-88) was one of Canada's premier political philosophers and stands as the benchmark for the Red Tory Tradition. He can also be credited with introducing the thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Simone Weil to Canada, critically analyzing their work seriously for the first time. Grant's Red Toryism has been revived and modified in the UK, but for a look at the essential thought of its chief architect, this book is a must read. Included in this work are essays in political theology, along with previously unpublished letters and classnotes that are critical to an understanding of Grant's 'primacy of the Good' vis-a-vis the 'primacy of freedom-as-mastery.' Especially important is the analysis of his theological relationship to Simone Weil and an appropriation of his work to rise above the culture wars of left and right.Table of ContentsPreface / 1Part 1 - CONVERSION1. George Grant's Conversion Accounts / 52. Simone Weil's Encounter with Christ in Marseilles / 133. Grant's McMaster Sermon / 17Part 2 - THE RISE OF MODERNITY4. Sprouts of Modernity in Medieval Theology / 235. Blooms of Modernity in the Reformation and Calvinist Puritanism / 376. The Autonomous Subject: Knowing as Willing in Descartes, Bacon and Kant / 49Part 3 - MYSTICAL EPISTEMOLOGY7. Etymology of Nous / 658. Heidegger's Eckart / 819. Weil's Mystical Ascent / 85Part 4 - GRANTEAN THEOLOGY10. God the All-Powerful, All-Powerless / 11111. Consent as Coercion / 123Part 5 - GRANTEAN JUSTICE12. Grant's Rhetorical Method / 13113. Christ at the Checkpoint / 141Part 6 - PRIMARY SOURCES14. Previously Unpublished Letters and Journal Entries / 15115. Reading Simone Weil: Unpublished Excerpt / 19916. Dalhousie Classnotes on Plato / 20117. Robin Mathews: The Wave of the Future / 21118. Grant's References to Martin Luther's Thesis 21 / 213APPENDICES19. Grant's Readings in Weil: French and English / 21920. Beyond Dualism: Correspondence with Radical Orthodoxy / 221Abbreviations / 227Bibliography of Sources Consulted / 231

Clarion Call to Love is a festschrift written in honour of Archbishop Lazar by contributors from the Clarion Journal of Spirituality & Justice. Each author writes an essay in an area of Abp. Lazar's expertise and interest. The contributors include Brad Jersak, Ron Dart, Wayne Northey, Brian Zahnd, Andrew Klager and Kevin Miller. A final chapter of Vladika Lazar's own thoughts on God as love and his instructions to the clergy concludes this compilation.

This collection of essays by George Grant scholars, Ron Dart and Brad Jersak, explores issues of political philosophy, including comparisons with Manning, Strauss, Voegelin and Weil.Part 1 Essays by Ron S. Dart1. Reversing the Reversal / 72. Review of Lament for a Nation / 153. George Grant and Ernest Manning: Who is the RealConservative? / 274. Biblical Judaism, Western Christianity andLiberalism / 375. Matrix of Liberalism: a Seven Act Drama / 45Part 2 Essays by Brad Jersak6. Grant, Weil and Nietzsche: The Darkness of Modernity / 737. Grant, Strauss and Voegelin: Modernist Embodiments / 10