Salvation in the Post-Christian Age
The eighteenth-century revolt, enacted in the name of science and reason against the incubus of doctrinaire theology and metaphysics, was certainly an "epoch," and the unfolding of…
The eighteenth-century revolt, enacted in the name of science and reason against the incubus of doctrinaire theology and metaphysics, was certainly an "epoch," and the unfolding of…
The loss of the concrete is substantially a spiritual disease. With the thinning out of faith into a reverential attitude toward symbols, the meaning of the symbols…
In the series of definitions of democracy I have just given you, I have focused on the question of being human or of not being human. Now…
First, the clichés of the State and of Democracy, clichés that must be removed if we wish to get hold of any kind of political problem at…
This excerpt is from a conversation between Eric Voegelin and graduate students following a lecture at the St. Thomas More Institute in Montreal. The participants include Winston…
Communication between human beings is the modus procedendi through which a society exists. The fact that the "Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy" are in question…
The wars and revolutions of the twentieth century bring to its end a period that begins with the consolidation of the Western national states in the fifteenth…
[The] sliding down of the substance of order over the ranks of the ontological hierarchy holds as much interest for the historian as it does for the…
Linnaeus' biological theory of the fixity of the species is so superbly suited to serve as the point of departure for our investigations because of its persuasive…
Dear Friend, Please accept our heartfelt thanks for those fine evenings which we were able to spend with you and your dear wife. Unfortunately, the time we…
Any assertion that this or that is, or is not, "right by nature" must remain void of meaning unless we know what nature is. In this matter…
Dear Elizabeth: 1 Thanks for your kind letter of February 3rd. I hasten to answer it, in order to assuage all sorrows that I would take your…
Mr. Chairman, let me thank you for your kind words of introduction. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have to make a preliminary remark. I have acquired a grippe…
In speaking . . . about the experiences of the mystic philosophers and their fulfillment through Christianity, an assumption concerning history is implied that must be explicated.…
Man's existence in the In-Between of imperfection and perfection, time and timelessness, mortality and immortality is indeed not an object of sense perception; and the propositions or…