Ron Dart
Ron Dart | |
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 Dart in 2020 | |
| Born | Ronald Samuel Dart October 24, 1950 |
| Occupation | Academic • author |
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| Spouse | Karin Dart |
| Children | Kevin Dart |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Lethbridge (BA) Regent College (MCS, DCS) University of British Columbia (MA) |
| Thesis | The Spirituality of John Cassian |
Academic advisors | James M. Houston Ian Rennie |
| Influences | George Grant Kenneth Leech Stephen Leacock Thomas Merton |
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School or tradition | Anglo-Catholicism Presbyterianism Red Toryism |
| Institutions | University of the Fraser Valley |
Main interests | Patristics • history of philosophy • political history |
alma_mater which should be merged into education.Ronald Samuel Dart, BA (Lethbridge), DCS, MCS (Regent College), MA (UBC), is a university professor and author. In 2022, he was hooded as Doctor of Ministry and Humanities (honoris causa) by St. Stephen's University (New Brunswick).
Dart teaches in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. "He has become the most important writer about the Red Tory tradition in Canada."
He has authored forty books that deal with the interface between literature, spirituality and politics, including Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades. He is one of the primary experts on the life and thought of both Stephen Leacock and George Grant and their place in the pantheon of traditional Canadian conservative thought.
He is a board member of the Thomas Merton Society of Canada and serves as the Canadian contact for the Evelyn Underhill Association and the Bede Griffiths Sangha. He has also penned numerous articles on Mountaineering.
He contributes regularly to the High Tory alongside the Clarion Journal and The Owl: George Grant Journal, where he became one of the main traditional Tory voices and critic of the "new conservatism" of Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada.