Vatican II: A Liturgical Restoration
True Reform: Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium. Massimo Faggioli. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2012. Eric Voegelin took at best a passing interest in institutional Catholicism. …
The Order of Society and its Tensions
We are faced with the following aporia: on the one hand, the law is manifest phenomenally in a plurality of legal orders understood as aggregates of valid…
Plato’s Critique of “Platonism” in the Sophist and Statesman: A Post-Voegelinian Reading
The Origins of Platonism The dramatic appearance of the Eleatic Stranger in the Theaetetus / Sophist / Statesman trilogy is generally taken as the moment a robust…
What is Society?
[Aristotle was plagued by such problems as whether a nation remained the same nation after a revolution]. He applied to the polis the categories of form and…
The Tory-Whig Climate of Opinion and the American Founding’s Spiritual Deficiencies
Before There were Conservatives and Liberals Partisan polarization, they say, is producing an "existential crisis"–pundit language for "disturbing situation suggesting the end of life as we know…
What is the Law?
[One problem] will be singled out for present examination: the equivocal use of "the law" in the sense of valid rules made by organs of government and…