John Lennox – författare
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Kan vetenskapen förklara allt? Vi tycks i dag inte längre ha något behov av tro och religion eftersom vetenskapen har visat hur världen fungerar. Vetenskap och religion går helt enkelt inte ihop.
Men är det verkligen så? På sitt typiskt godmodiga sätt skingrar John Lennox den vanliga missuppfattningen att vetenskap och kristen tro är bittra fiender. Båda behövs för att förstå vad livet handlar om.
John Lennox är professor emeritus i matematik vid Oxforduniversitetet och tidigare docent i matematik och vetenskapsfilosofi vid Green Templeton College i Oxford. Han har publicerat över 70 artiklar i vetenskapliga tidskrifter och skrivit ett flertal böcker och monografier. På svenska har tidigare utkommit Guds dödgrävare: Har vetenskapen begravt Gud?
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William Arthur Deacon was an intellectual patron and prophet in Canadian writing. For forty years, as literary editor of Saturday Night (1922-8), The Mail and Empire (1928-36), and The Globe and Mail (1936-60) he contributed vast amounts of time and energy to building a readership and a sympathetic climate for Canadian writers and writing. His correspondence put him in touch, as no other reviewer before him, with virtually every English- and French-Canadian author of his time.
Based on his correspondence, books, and review columns, the biography views Deacon’s life in terms of this involvement and in the context of the cultural and political forces of his time. Deacon’s early years as a lawyer, his self-imposed literary apprenticeship, and his break with the law as a profession concurred with the sense of mission and destiny that were part of his Methodist family background and his personal theosophical beliefs. Coming to Toronto in 1922, he quickly established himself as the country’s premier literary reviewer and poured his energies into that role. In that decade he also published Pens and Pirates, Poteen, The Four Jameses, and the appreciative monograph Peter McArthur.
Deacon’s dismissal from Saturday Night and the Depression years tempered his zeal and broadened his awareness beyond literary horizons, although they were still the focus of his energies. His nationalism and pacifism were articulated in My Vision of Canada (1933). He also found himself more aware of the importance of literary community as he became deeply involved in the survival of Canadian writers and publishers. Deacon’s years with the Canadian Author’s Association, first as member, then as Toronto branch president, and finally as national president, witnessed the establishment of the Canadian Writers’ Foundation, the Governor-General’s Awards, the Standard Writers’ Contract, and the recognition by the federal government of special tax arrangements for Canadian writers.
The list of those who enjoyed Deacon’s friendship and support reads like a who’s who of Canadian literature, and his associations with French-Canadian writers after the Second World War broadened the cultural awareness of his readers.
His service to both reader and writer and to the culture on which both depend was without parallel – as this volume vividly reveals.
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