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Dr. Gordon E. Carkner Articles

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Towards an Incarnational Spiritual Culture: A New Book Release
By PortalBot • February 22, 2024

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Gordon E. Carkner is releasing a brand new book: Towards an Incarnational Spiritual Culture

Towards an Incarnation...

The Human Rights Dilemma
By PortalBot • September 14, 2023

Human Rights is a pertinent issue these days around the globe. People's lives and livelihood depend on the maintenance of a universal ethic of respect and benevolence. Dr. Gordon E. Carkner draws o...

Zoomers & the Secret Power of Virtue
By PortalBot • May 11, 2023

What will help Generation Z become successful and more resilient? Dr. Gordon E. Carkner, author and meta-educator, suggests that the secret is to follow the narrative strength of virtue. Zoomers wi...

Foucault & Taylor in Dialogue on Identity
By PortalBot • April 12, 2023

Two of the world's most famous philosophers, Michel Foucault from College de France & Charles Taylor from McGill University, are brought into critical dialogue on the contemporary conundrum of ...

Charles Taylor and the Modern Search for Identity
By PortalBot • January 16, 2023

In the modern quest for identity, there is no better place to turn than premiere Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor. In this video, Dr. Gordon Carkner, campus chaplain with graduate students and f...

A Rapprochement Between Faith & Reason
By PortalBot • October 24, 2022

"What should we believe about faith and reason whatever our starting point or prejudgments? It is perhaps a life-long quest to understand the nuances of this faith-reason, knowledge-religion relati...

Rescuing the Lost Language of Meaning
By PortalBot • May 15, 2022

Some elements in modern culture have worked to repress/restrict our language usage--in particular what Charles Taylor calls the 'meta-biological', the language of significance. Restricted language ...

Is there Rational Evidence for the Resurrection?
By PortalBot • April 11, 2022

Some allege that the resurrection of Jesus was a hoax. We must decide whether there is a more plausible alternative than an actual physical, bodily resurrection. Much hangs on the answer.

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Re-thinking our Myth of the Secular
By PortalBot • March 07, 2022

Many people seem to be hungry for fresh perspectives on the current Western cultural ethos. Dr. Gordon E. Carkner argues that we need to urgently rethink our view of the 'secular'.

In thi...

Transcendent Goodness & Human Hospitality 
By PortalBot • March 01, 2022

What are the theological and philosophical roots or drivers of hospitality? From his research on the self in late modernity, Dr. Carkner delves into this question.

The Perils of Radical Individualism
By PortalBot • February 11, 2022

In this webinar, Dr. Gordon Carkner analyses what is at stake in a radical individualist stance. He explores the social and personal consequences of this ideology that grips our society. His trajec...

The Genius of Truth
By PortalBot • November 17, 2021

Dr. Gordon E. Carkner, a Meta-Educator with postgraduate students at UBC Vancouver, examines some of the critical parameters of the quest for truth. He offers some lucid clarifications in a day whe...