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  • The Canadian political crisis 
    von Heyking, John (Ashbrook Center for Public AffairsArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008-12)
    Canada faces a political crisis, and potentially a crisis of national unity, that it has never seen before. Harper’s Conservatives won a minority government in October. Yet, in just six short weeks, his government is facing ...
  • The charter and civil religion 
    von Heyking, John (Cambridge Scholars PressArts and SciencePolitical ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2009)
    "Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, along with the Supreme Court, is the focal point for an evocation of civil religion ... The manner in which important constitencies speak of the Charter ... reveals an attempt ...
  • Churchill's Marlborough as the "Sum of things" 
    von Heyking, John (International Churchill SocietyArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2017)
    No abstract available
  • Civil religion and human rights in Canada 
    von Heyking, John (Conference on ”Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Conscience, Right for Unification: International and Russian Experience of Application: The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Arts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008-04)
    One of the reasons why religious pluralism flourishes to the degree it does in Canada and the United States is because, as immigrants, we have inherited a cultural attitude of healthy skepticism toward what politics can ...
  • David Walsh's anamnesis of modernity: a preface to a preface 
    von Heyking, John (Intercollegiate Studies InstituteArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2010-04)
    Walsh’s anamnesis moves among modernity’s three pillars: rights, science, and the turn to existence (MPR xii). All three volumes consider these three pillars with varying degrees of intensity. Additionally, his reflections ...
  • Disarming, simple, and sweet: Augustine's republican rhetoric 
    von Heyking, John (Pennsylvania State University PressArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005)
  • Establishing true community in philia among students: teaching the Eric Voegelin Reader 
    von Heyking, John (The Eric Vogeline SocietyArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2018)
    Abstract not available
  • The figure of Socrates and its significance for liberal education in Asia 
    von Heyking, John (Association of Cambridge StudiesArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2018)
    This essay contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the value of liberal education in East Asia, and how well Western models of liberal education fit with East Asian cultures. It addresses the inadequacy of the two ...
  • Friendship and language 
    von Heyking, John (Valparaiso UniversityArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of LethbridgeValparaiso University, 2007)
    Americans, even when not stranded on their rooftops, seem to have lost the art of friendship. They seem to be unsure just what to do with a friend. They know how to unite their bodies, but not their souls. They seem to ...
  • Friendship in light of the modern philosophical revolution 
    von Heyking, John (Redeemer Pacific CollegeArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2009)
    "Modernity constitutes a completion over antiquity in the sense that it establishes the incompleteness of philosophy in a way antiquity failed to see. If Socrates represents the greatestinsights of antiquity, Kierkegaard ...
  • Friendship: the form of politics 
    von Heyking, John (Arts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://viuvideos.viu.ca/media/Liberal+Studies+Spring+Conference+2016+John+von+Heyking+lecture_Friendship_the+form+of+politics%EF%80%A0/0_ylt0m1sa, 2016)
    Lecture presented at the Liberal Studies Spring Conference, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, B.C.
  • Friendship: the horizon of our common life 
    von Heyking, John (The Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public LifeArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2017)
    No abstract provided.
  • From a wooded summit : learning to love through augustinian meditation in Ascona 
    von Heyking, John (Konigshausen & NeumannArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)
    This paper focuses on the way ... Eranos scholars used Augustinian symbols to explicate the tensional relationship between time and eternity, finitude and infinity, creation and God, and human being and God that Eranos ...
  • God's co-workers: Remi Brague's treatment of the divine law of Christianity 
    von Heyking, John (Intercollegiate Studies InstituteArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2009-04)
    Our imprudence is related to our confusion about the nature of law, which, as Rémi Brague demonstrates in his The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea, derives from the modern rejection of certain presuppositions ...
  • History brought into a form: political storytelling 
    von Heyking, John (De GruyterArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672206-007, 2020)
    Storytelling is the form of the collective life we call politics. Politics is about performing actions and subsequently sharing stories about those actions. To answer the question posed as the title of this volume, history ...
  • Holy moly under the terebinth tree: a response to my friends 
    von Heyking, John (Ficino PublicationsArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2017)
    The author responds to the five insightful reviews of his book, The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato. He focuses upon their questions regarding the degree to which the daimonic form of political friendship he expounds ...
  • Iran's President and the politics of the Twelfth Imam 
    von Heyking, John (Ashbrook Center for Public AffairsArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005-11)
    Western observers need to be able to understand the ideological and religious overtones of the current situation in Iran. Ahmadinejad’s peculiar references to the Twelfth Imam are no mere eccentricity to be taken lightly. ...
  • Is political friendship possible in the modern age? 
    von Heyking, John (Arts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2007)
    Lectures presented for the Chester Ronning Centre for Pluralism at Augustana University College (Camrose, AB) and The Kings University College (Edmonton, AB),
  • Law and religious pluralism in Canada : review 
    von Heyking, John; Moon, Richard (University of British Columbia PressArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008)
    Book review of Law and religious pluralism in Canada edited by Richard Moon. The essays in this volume ponder the nature of religious freedom and pluralism in Canada. In addition to considering recent case law, the authors ...
  • Liberal education, friendship, and the "political art in the true sense" 
    vonHeyking, John (Lexington BooksArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2020)