Bryce Christensen, Author at VoegelinView

Bryce Christensen

Bryce Christensen is a Professor of English at Southern Utah University. He is the author of the non-fiction books Utopia Against the Family (Ignatius, 1990) and Divided We Fall (Transaction, 2006); the novel Winning (Whiskey Creek, 2007); and The Portals of Sheol’ and Other Poems (White Violet, 2012).

In the Beginning, the Word. In the End, the Image? The Cultural and Political Consequences of the Visual Mentality

June 24, 2019
Bryce Christensen

Historian Jean Yarbrough is hardly alone in remembering Thomas Jefferson for “his greatest rhetorical triumph,” namely, the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence,”[i] paragraphs that announced…

“Schooling for ‘the Democracy of the Dead”: How the Liberal Arts Connect Us with the Legacy of the Past

November 22, 2017
Bryce Christensen

In seeking to explain the evolution of the American democracy, historians typically give great emphasis to the step-by-step enlargement of the franchise to vote. Thus, the expansion…

“Only Collect[ing] the Fragments”: The Inadequacy of an Entirely Secular Approach to the Liberal Arts

November 15, 2017
Bryce Christensen

Commenting in 1940 about the perspective that had given modern education its fundamentally secular character, the sociologist Florian Znankecki spoke of “the deeply stimulating conviction that man,…

Bryce Christensen