Thursday, December 20, 2012


Brad Jersak's book, George P. Grant: Minverva's Snowy Owl -- Essays in Political Theology, is now available for download at:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/103610108/George-P-Grant-Minerva-s-Snowy-Owl-by-Brad-Jersak.

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 Previously Unpublished Letters and Journal Entries / 151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 Reading Simone Weil: Unpublished Excerpt / 199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 




Stephen Leacock and George Grant: Anglican Red Tories with Ron Dart