George P. Grant: Minerva's Snowy Owl -- by Brad Jersak

George P. Grant: 
Minerva's Snowy Owl (2012)
Essays in Political Theology
by Brad Jersak
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This work is a collection of supplementary essays and primary sources cited in Brad Jersak's thesis, We are not our own: the Platonic Christianity of George Grant (Bangor, Wales).

It includes 32 previously unpublished journal entries, letters, and classnotes from Grant's archives.  

Table of Contents

Preface / 1

Part 1 – CONVERSION 

1. George Grant’s Conversion Accounts / 5

2. Simone Weil’s Encounter with Christ in Marseilles / 13 3. Grant’s McMaster Sermon / 17

Part 2 – THE RISE OF MODERNITY

4. Sprouts of Modernity in Medieval Theology / 23

5. Blooms of Modernity in the Reformation and Calvinist Puritanism / 37

6. The Autonomous Subject: Knowing as Willing in Descartes, Bacon and Kant / 49

Part 3 – MYSTICAL EPISTEMOLOGY 

7. Etymology of Nous / 65

8. Heidegger’s Eckart / 81 

9. Weil’s Mystical Ascent / 85

Part 4 – GRANTEAN THEOLOGY 

10. God the All-Powerful, All-Powerless / 111

11. Consent as Coercion / 123 

Part 5 – GRANTEAN JUSTICE

12. Grant’s Rhetorical Method / 131 

13. Christ at the Checkpoint / 141

Part 6 – PRIMARY SOURCES 

14. Previously Unpublished Letters and Journal Entries / 151

15. Reading Simone Weil: Unpublished Excerpt / 199 

16. Dalhousie Classnotes on Plato / 201 

17. Robin Mathews: The Wave of the Future / 211 

18. Grant’s References to Martin Luther’s Thesis 21 / 213

APPENDICES 

19. Grant’s Readings in Weil: French and English / 219

20. Beyond Dualism: Correspondence with Radical Orthodoxy / 221

Abbreviations / 227 

Bibliography of Sources Consulted / 231