Date/Time
Date(s) - October 26, 2014
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Location
Fairview Presbyterian Church
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Professor Ron Dart will speak on Thomas Merton and the Contemplative Life. Fairview PresbyterianChurch Library Speaker Event
THOMAS MERTON
AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE
GUEST SPEAKER
PROFESSOR RON DART
Political Science, Philosophy and Religious Studies Departments
University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford
A LECTURE DEDICATED TO DR. IAN RENNIE, FORMERLY OF REGENT COLLEGE, VANCOUVER
After the morning service on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014
Thomas Merton (1915-68)
–an American Catholic writer and monk
–a Trappist monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani, Louisville, Kentucky
–a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion
–1949—ordained to the priesthood, and given the name of Father Louis
–wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, social justice and a quiet pacifism
—The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)—Merton’s autobiography
Ron Dart
–a professor in political science, philosophy and religious studies departments at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford
–was on staff with Amnesty International before he joined UFV in 1990
–B.A. (Lethbridge), DCS, MCS (Regent College), M.A. (U.B.C.), Ph.D. studies (McMaster University)
–was a teaching assistant to Dr. James Houston at Regent from 1979 to 1981; did his master of Christian studies with Dr. Houston, and Dr. Ian Rennie
–Professor Dart has an interest in Canadian nationalism, Canadian Red/High Toryism, literature and politics, religion and politics, human rights, world religions, political philosophy, and mountaineering.
–He is the political science advisor to the Stephen Leacock Home/Museum, and is on the national executive of the Thomas Merton Society of Canada. He has written and published on George Grant, Stephen Leacock and Thomas Merton. He has published 22 books.
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