Becoming as a Child
And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, “Verily I say unto you, unless ye be converted…
Has Modern Science Killed the Essay?
“Thence it happens that nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known, nor are any people so confident as those who tell us fables, such…
Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy and Its Significance for a Catholic University
In The Australian, July 22-23, 2023, there was an article by John Carroll titled Death of the Humanities. Carroll began by observing that in some American universities,…
Fear Not, It Is I
Lord, purge our eyes to see within the seed a tree, within the glowing egg a bird, within the shroud a butterfly: till taught by such, we…
What I Learned Wrestling With Kant
My basic takeaway from reading some of Immanuel Kant’s political essays a few years ago, including the one posing the question of enlightenment, is that the latter…
Notes from Oxford’s Backroom: Of Forgetting
What have we forgotten? In the first few pages of the Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius, who awaits trial for supposed treason, must confront this question. After his…
From Denial to Acceptance: An Essay on Aging
When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a middle-aged man suffering from hypertension and pre-diabetes. I see a head of thick brown hair. A still-youthful…
How Christian Schools Can Save the True Meaning of Christmas
It’s a regular Wednesday afternoon in mid-December, and I walk to the teacher’s lounge to pick up copies of books. Upon entering the teacher’s lounge, lo and…
Education and the Virtues
The difference between being educated and being schooled is the difference between being equipped to ride a horse across open country and being led on horseback around…
Wisdom and Hospitality in the Classroom
In the book of Proverbs – a book addressed especially to young people, particularly young men – Solomon commends wisdom as a “lady.” Lady Wisdom is a…
Educating for the Great Conversation
Compulsory education is a contradiction in terms. It is impossible to force a person to learn. We can pass laws, enforce punishments, bribe, cajole, demand, and threaten,…
Remembering Ellis Sandoz
My Doktorvater is dead. G. Ellis Sandoz went to the Great Beyond on September 19th. I met Ellis 31 years ago and indeed the German word Doktorvater captures well the relationship…
On Order and Education
At the beginning of Augustine’s theodicy, “On Order,” he writes to Zenobius, the friend to which he addressed to the work: There is an order to be…
Why Am I an English Major?
A friend of mine recently told me that she could tell I read a lot as a kid. Does that matter? I’ve wondered ever since. Does it…
Editor’s Commentary
This September marks yet another new beginning for VOEGELINVIEW. What began as an online forum and platform for occasional notes and articles on Eric Voegelin and Voegelin…