Our Tenth Year Anniversary!
In the new year of 2019, VoegelinView will be celebrating its tenth anniversary! Our sincerest thanks to Fritz Wagner, Ronald D. Srigley, and the rest of the…
In the new year of 2019, VoegelinView will be celebrating its tenth anniversary! Our sincerest thanks to Fritz Wagner, Ronald D. Srigley, and the rest of the…
The top ten features of 2018 in VoegelinView are listed below. Many thanks to the contributors for submitting your pieces to us! 10. John P. Moran's…
As socialism ascends in popularity across the western world, many are infatuated with the promises it offers. According to a recent Gallup poll, among the Democratic Party,…
“Live not by lies,” was the advice that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born December 11, 1918) gave his compatriots when they asked him how to stand up to the…
Bruno Latour's 2015 lecture on politics, religion, and Voegelin at the University of Cologne is available here. Please see our audio and video tabs for more resources…
Michael Federici’s 2003 C-SPAN interview about his book Eric Voegelin is available here. Please see our audio and video tabs for more resources on Eric Voegelin.
A video recording of Eric Voegelin's 1978 lecture at York University in Toronto is available here. Please see our audio and video tabs for more resources on…
In our world today there appears to be a considerable anxiety surrounding the idea of greatness.[i] Specifically there is a fear of being great; that is, a…
Pope Francis, in his wise reflections on holiness in Gaudete et Exsultate (“Rejoice and Be Glad”), discusses Gnosticism and Pelagianism as “two subtle enemies of holiness.” The…
The making of the modern market economy is often attributed to Adam Smith. Though free market theorists see the primary roots here, the view is not shared…
Does Eric Voegelin's philosophy provides an inter-disciplinary basis for a free economy, rooted in the priority of the human person; that human beings are endowed with inherent…
Every theory of doctrinal development assumes a philosophy of history; this is the basic proposition which colors the following essay. But though I think it is true,…
In the Eighteenth Century, self-congratulatory pamphleteers and encyclopédistes, wanting to effectuate a break with tradition, extol their autonomy, and celebrate what they themselves named the Enlightenment, invented…
Brought to you by the friends of and contributors to VoegelinView! Michael Henry (St. John’s University) Michael Walsh's The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and…
The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity. Daniel J. Mahoney. New York: Encounter Books, 2018. Machiavelli accuses Christians of un-civic softness.…