What We’re Reading
Edith Hall, Facing Down the Furies. Can the Greeks still speak to the problem of suicide? Edith Hall, a classics scholar whose own family history is plagued…
Prophecy and Divine Intervention in Virgil’s Aeneid
Both prophecy and divine intervention play very important roles in The Aeneid. They constantly influence Aeneas’s journey. Therefore, there are many examples of them. However, this essay…
Can Transformative Inquiry Lead to The Knowledge of God?
As I began to think about the contents of this essay, I carefully thought about how a common individual such as I could arrive at the knowledge…
Salt Stone Sweet
Come listen, listen, listen To this tale I have to tell. Come listen to this tale Of a village with the strangest well. Come every one of…
The Metaphysics of Plato’s Moral and Political Philosophy
“Do you think, then, that it is possible to reach a serious understanding of the nature of the soul without understanding the nature of the world as…
Simsala Grimm: The Magic Key to the Land of Fairytales and the Trapped Children Deep Inside our Souls
Fairy-Tales. I don’t know about you, but in recent times I noticed that I really miss this particular branch of the literary genre. However, when I say…
Kairos and Daimon as Complementary Concepts
The Ancient Greek concept of "kairos" comes to me vaguely in translation as "the opportune moment." Occasionally I encounter a fuller and more useful elaboration, as when…
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VOEGELINVIEW is the arts & humanities journal of the Eric Voegelin Society. We publish essays, reviews, interviews, poems, and occasional works of creative fiction dealing with the great…
The black hat
There’s no forgiveness in this scalpel scoring my forehead. I’m a pumpkin shell carefully, firmly sliced open, the sound inside my head like a tearing, a blackbird…
At the Crossroads between Athens and Jerusalem
The relations between early Christianity and pagan philosophy were marked by strong ambivalence and ambiguity from the very beginning, which was due to many factors. In the…
Shakespeare: Political Theorist
When you think of William Shakespeare, the great Bard of the English language, you don’t necessarily think of him as a political theorist. Yes, he wrote about…
Timothy Dwight: Revolutionary Conservative Theologian and Educator
To combine the terms “revolutionary” and “conservative” is to introduce at the outset an element of paradox into the discussion. Yet these monikers must both be applied…
Are we Moving to an Environmental Neopaganism?
If one rejects the concept of fallen man and its concomitant idea of fallen nature – staple beliefs among the Abrahamic religions – or worse, if one…
The Pont Mirabeau
Under the pont Mirabeau flows the Seine With it our loves And strange to be minded Joy follows always after pain Let night come…