What We’re Reading
Augustine, The Confessions. Saint Augustine’s Confessions is a classic of literature, philosophy, and theology – in fact, we can just call it one of the classics of…
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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 Bulwarks of Unbelief
I owe my acquaintance with Joseph Minich’s Bulwarks of Unbelief to an intellectually ambitious member of the women’s book club at our church. It’s fair to say…
Matthew’s Negotiation with Roman Power in the Gospels
John E. Christianson’s The Gospel of Matthew and the Roman Military: How the Gospel Portrays and Negotiates Imperial Power attempts to re-narrate the traditional reading of the…
The Postlapsarian Academy and the Loss of Poetics
Modern academia is enamored with "theory." It seems as if every literary, cultural, and historical scholar must by definition adhere to a certain presupposed paradigm that informs…
To the Valley Beneath Beacon Rock
If we’re waiting east of Eden, Then heading west just makes good sense. There, the days of August evens Lie gentle on a valley fenced By Beacon…
Kate Carl and the Culture of War
Paul Kingsnorth, whose new book Against The Machine is due out in late-September, is right: the West continues to put civilization ahead of an authentic Christianity, one…
Pierre Manent’s Defense of Christianity Against Modern Atheism
Pierre Manent is best known as one of Europe’s leading political philosophers. Given this status, many would find it puzzling that a scholar who has limned the…
Timaeus as a Political Allegory
Plato is notorious for having banned the artists and poets in the Republic. But Plato was himself an artist and poet. Plato’s animosity toward poetry was not…
In a Dry and Fiery Season
He holds back the waters and there is drought; He sends them forth and they overwhelm the land -Job 12:15 There hasn’t been a gust of…
The Wild Color
2023’s Barbie film was a typical postmillennial starburst cultural phenomenon. Upon its advent, it had a tremendous effect on the (especially digital zeitgeist). At the same time,…
The German Lesson (the Movie): Scapegoating for Peace
Before getting to the The German Lesson, extensive prefatory remarks are needed. All mythology is sacrificial and originates with a real-life scapegoat; a claim René Girard knew…
With Pedro Romero before the Bull
He’s not seen two decades of suns, His skin is brown and blistered with memory; Our companion nervously folds his fingers, Pedro Romero buttons up his green…
Hedgelaying
Instead of a fence, we laid a hedge: not shrubbery you’d find in magazines, but a breathing barrier of rods and pleachers brought together to keep the…