The Beyond and Its Parousia
As the title for today's lecture in the context of “The Meaning of History," I have chosen “The Beyond and Its Parousia." You know, of course, where…
Piero Coda’s Theology of History
The Trinity and Love Perhaps Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most powerful single response to the Bolshevik coup d’état and consequent ideological revolution in Russia was his novel, In the…
Voegelin and the Troubled Greatness of Hegel
It would challenge credulity to claim that, contrary to appearances, Voegelin's relationship with G.W.F. Hegel is positive. The tone Voegelin adopts toward modern thinkers in general, and…
Eric Voegelin and Continental Philosophy: Diagnosing Modernity
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Explorations in Modern Political Thought. Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011. I…
Modern Views of Plato’s Silence (Part I)
Plato directly and indirectly cautions his students that he does not communicate with them straightforwardly. To repeat the warnings quoted previously, Plato fiercely denies in his Seventh…
