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.

Christine Jones

Articles by Christine Jones

  • The Light of Faith: Lighting the Realism of Faith

    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...

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