New World Inklings is a private academic collection of Christian worldview resources. It’s maintained at a personal residence as a labour of love for the Canadian Christian community.

The collection provides a thorough perspective of the Christian worldview, its role in history, and its sociological influence since the Reformation, with counterpoints from other major western perspectives of the 20th and 21st century. European, British, and North American historical and social intersections with these topics are well-represented.

Cataloguing is currently in progress. Visiting times will be posted in future.

Genealogy of the Collection

The bulk of the collection is courtesy of the private library of Dr. Stewart Kelly, Department of Philosophy Chair Emeritus, Minot State University. Dr. Kelly studied under Dr. Alvin Plantinga at Notre Dame University.

Dr. Kelly is the author of Truth Considered and Applied, Understanding Postmodernism: A Christian Perspective, and co-editor with Paul Copan of Christianity Contested: Replies to Critics’ Toughest Objections.

The collection curator is a past magazine and fiction/narrative non-fiction editor. She has a multi-decade involvement in the Christian education community in Manitoba. Her interest in philosophy as the foundation of cultural engagement began via editing work on award-winning Christian novel Konig’s Fire by Marc Schooley, a high-action wrestle with the Problem of Evil.

Purpose

The library is an excellent resource of citations and sources for communications work, including sermons, college or university papers, and podcasts.

For more casual purposes, a browse through titles and back cover summaries is an education in itself, thanks to decades of thoughtful collection by our friend Dr. Kelly.