Americanism: The Genesis of a Civil Theology (Part III)
The Social Function of the World of National Symbols Even before 1860, the infinite variety of civic associations of every sort and with different public and private…
The Social Function of the World of National Symbols Even before 1860, the infinite variety of civic associations of every sort and with different public and private…
Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Bible. John J. Ranieri. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009. In Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin,…
Ernest Sandeen (1908-1997) Ernest Emmanuel Sandeen wrote a half dozen or so volumes of poetry in his long life. He earned his first fame with this very…
With the exception of Washington, all the Founding Fathers had, of course, to travel the road from the controversial to the noncontroversial sphere. Franklin, Jefferson, and Lincoln…
Gnostic Wars: The Cold War in the Context of a History of Western Spirituality. Stefan Rossbach. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University press, 1992. “One of the typical phenomena…
Monumental History The process by which the founders' consciousness created itself a social field in the new society and the authority of an ultimate source of order…
The Question Posed by Locke For John Locke, the foundation of the social contract was not a problem because it was identical with the moral law. The…
. . . . [According to Kant] infinite progress is possible only if the existence and personality of rational beings continue on into infinity; the immortality of…