Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. Eric Kurlander. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Reading Eric Kurlander’s Hitler’s Monsters awoke my memory…
Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. Eric Kurlander. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Reading Eric Kurlander’s Hitler’s Monsters awoke my memory…
Permanent Liminality and Modernity: Analysing the Sacrificial Carnival through Novels. Arpad Szakolczai. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2017. As in the previous review, I’ll just…
Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary. Arpad Szakolczai. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2016. Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, and…
Since Voegelin has said that the reality of experience is self-interpretive, let’s turn this question around and ask, how did the earliest humans think about origins. I’ll…
As late as Nov 29, 1988, well into the Gorbachev period of "glasnost," Suslov’s successor and top party ideologist, Vadim Medvedev "confirmed Solzhenitsyn would remain on the…
David Walsh's Politics of the Person A few years ago, I tried to work out a philosophical understanding of human origins, which involved not only up to…
The Soul of the World . Roger Scruton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. These Stanton Lectures at the Divinity Faculty of the University of Cambridge…
The Trinity and Love Perhaps Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most powerful single response to the Bolshevik coup d’état and consequent ideological revolution in Russia was his novel, In the…
This interview is in light of Brendan Purcell's essay, "Voegelin and Theology Today" on Fred Lawrence’s article, "Eric Voegelin: Mystical Philosopher and Scientist." Vv: Is there…
The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science. Bruce L. Gordon and William A. Dembski, eds. Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute Books, 2011. …
A Reflection of 20 Years I’ve been asked, in light of the contrasting interpretations of Jürgen Gebhardt and Paul Caringella, and Fred Lawrence’s article that works on…
The Foundations of the Scientific Method What we call the natural sciences emerged only in Western civilization which in turn was built on the experiences of Greek…
On this occasion we will consider the Encyclical Letter of John Paul II, Faith and Reason (Fides et ratio), which he released on September 15th, 1998. We…
My first contact with David Walsh was when I was working on my own MA a century ago. One of his big interests then was a love…
We shouldn't pretend that in the course of a short lecture we can establish a foundation for media ethics. But we can move towards a foundation if…