The First Mystics? Some Recent Accounts of Neolithic Shamanism (Part I)
Remember that it is not you who sustain the root; the root sustains you. -Roman 11:18 Voegelin, Mysticism, and the Stone Age Before discussing the evidence…
Remember that it is not you who sustain the root; the root sustains you. -Roman 11:18 Voegelin, Mysticism, and the Stone Age Before discussing the evidence…
Voegelin Recollected: Conversations on a Life. Barry Cooper and Jodi Bruhn, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2008. Conversations is a telling account of the…
Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order. Jeffrey C. Herndon. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Jeffrey Herndon notes in his introduction to…
To ask the question concerning "legitimacy of the modern age" represents an act characteristic of post-modernity, i.e. of a modernity which is suspicious of its own foundations.…
The splendid festivities commemorating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth make some essential facts about the life and works of this man of science momentarily invisible.…
In the 12 October 1929 issue of the Illustrated London News, G.K. Chesterton wrote: ". . . How much more melancholy is the condition of those, in…
This excerpt is from a conversation between Eric Voegelin and graduate students following a lecture at St. Thomas More Institute in Montreal. His interlocutor was Father Eric…
It would take a very fat volume or two to do justice to the subject of Voegelin and his contemporaries. I would like to begin by indicating…