The content that follows may only represent a portion of the Faculty member’s work.
Books
The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselves. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2016.
Norm Klassen and Jens Zimmermann, The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.
Chaucer on Love, Knowledge, and Sight, Chaucer Studies 21, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995.
Chapters
“Surprised by Joy: Chaucer’s Tonal Achievement in Parliament of Fowls, 92-294,” Tradition and Formation: Claiming an Inheritance: Essays in Honour of Peter C. Erb, ed. Michel Desjardins and Harold Remus, Kitchener: Pandora Press, 2009, 213-28.
Jens Zimmermann and Norman Klassen, “Simon Critchley: The Ethics of Deconstruction or Metaphysics in the Dark,” in The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity: Literature and the Christian Critic, ed. Deborah Bowen, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, 122-34.
“Romance and Tragedy in Chaucer’s ‘litel bok’ of Troilus and Criseyde,” in A Concise Companion to Chaucer, ed. Corinne Saunders, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, 157-77.
“Nature, Virtue, and Humanism: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on Vermigli’s Romans Commentary (10-16),” Peter Martyr Vermigli and the European Reformations, ed. Frank James in Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, Leiden: Brill, 2004, 197-211.
“Chaucerian Ethics: The Spaces of Dialogue,” Theology in Dialogue III: English Literature and Theology, ed. Liam Gearon, London: Cassell, 1999, 85-103.
Articles
“Mary’s Swollen Womb: What It Looks Like to Overcome Tyranny in The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale,”Renascence 68 (2016): 76-92.
“The Coherence of Creation in the Word: The Rhetoric of Lines 1-34 of Chaucer’s General Prologue,” Christianity and Literature 64 (2014): 3-20.
“A Further Note on Editorial Punctuation of the General Prologue, ll. 12-16,” The New Chaucer Society Newsletter 36.1 (2014): np.
“To Seek To Distant Shrines: A Syntactical Problem in Chaucer’s General Prologue 12-16,” Modern Philology 111.3 (2014): 585-92.
“Two Possible Sources for Chaucer’s Description of the Pardoner,” Notes and Queries 252 (ns 54) (September 2007), 233-6.
“City of Lights: Natural and Transcendent Light Sources for Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s ‘Good City-Republic,’” Quaderni d’Italianistica 28 (2007), 31-44.
“A Note on ‘Hyre’ in Parliament of Fowls, 284,” Notes and Queries 251 (ns 53) (June 2006), 154-7.
“Two Chaucers,” Medium Aevum 68 (1999), 96-104.
“The Lover’s Largesce: Agency and Selfhood in Chrétien’s Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot),” French Forum 24 (1999), 5-20.
“Self-reflexiveness and the Category of the Will in Early Troubadour Poetry of Fin’ Amors,” Forum for Modern Language Studies 34 (1998), 29-42.
Others
Letter
“Material Limits,” Times Higher Education, 16 January 2014: 33
Dictionary Entries
“Julian of Norwich,” Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, ed. Glen G. Scorgie, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011, 553-4.
“Literature and Christian Spirituality,” DCS, 579-81.
“Poetry and Poetics,” DCS, 678-80.
Interviews
Mars Hill Audio Journal, vol. 136, 15 November 2017.
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Anthology 8: “The Vocation of Knowledge: Higher Education and the Difference Christ Makes,” 1 January 2010.
Mars Hill Audio Journal, vol. 86, 1 July 2007.
Unrefereed Articles
“Art by the Word,” Convivium 5 (2016), 26-28.
“A Pilgrimage of Conversation,” Convivium 4 (2015), 20-23.
“My Anglicanism,” The Anglican Catholic 15 (2003), 24-40.
Norm Klassen and Tony Cummins, “Human/ist Affirmations: An Interdisciplinary Conversation,” Canadian Evangelical Review 25 (2003), 5-17.
Book Reviews (Print)
Ryan McDermott, Tropologies: Ethics and Invention in England, c. 1350-1600, Christianity and Literature
Peter W. Travis, Rereading the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Modern Philology 111.1 (2013): E19-22.
Online Postings
“George Grant as a Philosopher of Fittedness for the Contemporary Canadian Situation or Overcoming Our Self-Incurred Immaturity,” Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton, 8 June 2017.
Review of Aaron Riches, Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ, Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton, 3 June 2017.
“A Reflection on the Canticle of Mary,” Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton, 1 June 2017.
“Harari on Big Data and the Gap Between Homo and Deus,” Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton, 5 December 2016.
“A Reflection on the Canticle of Zechariah,” Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton, 17 November 2016.
Review of Conor Cunningham, Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get it Wrong, Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton, 21 December 2012.
“The Thomistic Challenge of C.S. Lewis’s Sermon ‘Learning in War-time,’” Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton, 3 October 2011.
“Lewis for Our Times: Principles of Cultural Apologetics in the Writings of Rowan Williams,” Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton, 3 October 2011.
“The Perils of (post)Postmodernism and the Joy of Incarnational Humanism,” Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton, 22 August 2011.
“Newman on Literature.” Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton, 8 December 2010.
