Christine Jones
Dr. Christine Jones received her MA and PhD (1999) from McGill University, Montreal. From 1999-2001 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Montreal. From 2001-2003, she held a Canada Research Chair Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Religion and Culture at U.B.C. In 2004, Christine joined the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University. Since 2011, Christine has served as President of Redeemer Pacific College, a Catholic College affiliated with Trinity Western University, in Langley, B.C. For her entire adult life, she has been involved with the ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation. She loves music, literature, philosophy, theology, film, good food, fine wine, and hiking in the most beautiful city in the world (Vancouver!); but, she is most especially grateful for the many good friends she has whom she is able to share the goodness of life with.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by Christine Jones
Regaining the Human
By Christine Jones
October 1, 2015
While the federal government's legislative action on human trafficking is promising, only the recovery of Christian anthropology can fully protect Canada from its predations.
Do these radically different approaches not reveal a tension at the heart of liberalism, even an unravelling of the logic of liberalism itself ? For in the case of prostitution, two of liberal political philosophy's fundamental tenets — equality on the one hand, and the valorization of individualism and individual freedom on the other — instead of coexisting as ready allies, as they do when it comes to the issues of abortion or gay marriage, are now being marshalled for distinctly rival conceptions of the good Canada's Bill C-36 takes a similar approach, pointing out that since women and girls comprise the majority of those who sell their own sexual services, prostitution is a gendered practice that reinforces gender inequalities in Canadian society at large "by normalizing the treatment of primarily women's bodies as commodities to be bought and sold So what should concerned Catholics, other Christians, and men and women of goodwill do about the political and social crisis that Western liberal democracy is undergoing worldwide? The issues of prostitution, abortion, gay marriage and so on are indeed important legal and moral issues, and can be addressed as such
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The Light of Faith: Lighting the Realism of Faith
Christine Jones
October 1, 2013
Christine Jones, John Zucchi, and Comment magazine editor James K.A. Smith reflect on Pope Francis' first encyclical, Lumen Fidei
Or, as an alternative response to reason's seeming incapacity, faith becomes for many Christians, as Francis points out in Lumen Fidei, with a nod to Kierkegaard and his ilk, an irrational "leap" into the darkness, a work of the individual subject that can have no claims on our life in common How di...