Monday, March 26, 2007

Vive la Révolution Bruit Québec



On a sidenote, it really is great to have Dr. and Prof. David T. Koyzis back in class, tomorrow is Canadian Government and Politics, really can't wait to here the verdict from him on what has been done here and his take on how this election will change our Canada. Though obviously still a little sedated, with much paleness around the face, nice to see the prayers for the professor worked quite well enough there, with his comeback miraculous in the nature of human medical recovery. As I couldn't see us having any other instructor for the course, since the next closest would be the President and Associate Professor of Political Science Justin D. Cooper (B.A., Trinity Christian College 1972; M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1976, 1986) who one would figure has others things going on the day thus we all just had to wait and read other books of political science theory while he recovered well. So he is back now, going straight to Chapter 7 of the book "Political Visions and Illusions" being "Transcending the Ideologies: Affirming Societal Pluriformity", where the ideals of Thomism, Luthernism and Calvinism seem to leave us in a political equation that Progressive Conservatism plus Reformed Liberalism equals Independent Democratism. This is the exact kind of instruction one would expect from another, who did their Ph.D. dissertation on "Toward a Christian Democratic Pluralism: A Comparative Study of Neo-Thomist and Neo-Calvinist Political Theories" for Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, between the time being a teaching assistant at Notre Dame and assistant professor at Redeemer in 1987. That line of academic thinking which focusses on "the nature of authority and obligation, to the relationship between religion and political ideologies, particularly nationalism, and to state-building amid social diversity" is what gives us societally relevant vitality and makes sense of Canada's own cradle to grave cultural mentality. Everyone tries to start out doing something brand new different, but the completely honest truth is that each of us is scared of the great unknown to a point, therefore all of us perpetually end up acting the same old way, this is what brings us off of our individual footpaths and in to the collective crossroad of life. Life is wack, so when it gives you something negative, you must simply make something positive out of it or all will be wack then what is the point of that, within it we as slaves of sanity must wait until after we lose everything that is near and dear to us from our top on down before we as freepeople of faith can go forward and win anything from the bottom on up.