Leslie Dewart

Richard Sawa

pp. 171-185

in: Christopher D. Rodkey, Jordan E. Miller (eds), The Palgrave handbook of radical theology, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

Leslie Dewart—born in Cuba, refugee to Spain, and later Canadian citizen and war veteran—wrote important and controversial philosophical challenges to Roman Catholicism in the 1960s. Later in life Dewart abandoned Catholicism and practiced law, but continued his philosophical project exploring human consciousness. Largely unknown and forgotten among Protestants, and suppressed among Catholics, Dewart is introduced to the reader in this chapter.