Coincidentia Oppositorum: Rites In Appropriate Spaces?
Introduction The planetary spread of the informational, genetic and space technologies has been continuing apace for some time now and is poised to renew questions regarding the…
What Hope for the Secular City?
Desiring a Better Country: Forays in Political Theology. Douglas Farrow. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. Desiring a Better Country offers a learned, judicious, provocative, and finally, rousing…
A Critique of Eric Voegelin’s Christianity
When Eric Voegelin published Order and History: I-III in the 1950s, Christian philosophers and theologians claimed him as one of their own. These first three volumes were…
The English Quest for the Concrete
The Growth of European Nationalism The development of political ideas after 1700 becomes increasingly parochial in the sense that problems that are specific to the several national…
The Oxford Political Philosophers
Political Theory and the National State The wars and revolutions of the twentieth century bring to its end a period that begins with the consolidation of the…
From Two Swords to Three: The Medieval Differentiation of Authority
The Differentiation of Authority: The Medieval Turn Toward Existence. James Greenaway. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2012. James Greenaway’s book The Differentiation of Authority:…
Augusto Del Noce on the Societa Opulenta
The Crisis of Modernity. Augusto Del Noce with Carlo Lancellotti, ed. and trans. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2014. An important book has been published. Let us…
Voegelin and 21st-Century Jihadism
The foundation for a Voegelinian understanding of 21st-century jihadism has been laid by Michael Franz and Barry Cooper, Franz’s work in relation to modern ideology in general,…
Looking at the Big Questions
ERIC O'CONNOR: I remarked to you yesterday that I had found your use of apeiron a bit ambiguous; it meant "limitless" in a good sense at some…
Michael D. O’Brien: Stimulating Reflection
Elijah in Jerusalem: A Novel. Michael D. O’Brien. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2015. Michael D. O’Brien’s eleventh novel, Elijah in Jerusalem: A Novel, is also the…
Michael D. O’Brien and the War between Good and Evil in an Incarnational Universe
Michael D. O'Brien. Plague Journal. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999. Michael D. O'Brien. Eclipse of the Sun. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1998. Michael D. O’Brien. Strangers and…
Michael D. O’Brien: Wisdom Through Suffering
Michael D. O’Brien. Voyage to Alpha Centauri. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2013. Michael D. O’Brien. Theophilos. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010. Michael D. O’Brien. Island of the World.…
Michael D. O’Brien: From Apocalypse to Love
Michael D. O’Brien. Sophia House. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2005. Michael D. O’Brien. A Cry of Stone. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2003. Michael D. O’Brien. Father Elijah:…
Russian Political Symbols, Culture, and Civil Society
The promise of order and justice after the collapse of the Soviet Union has not been fulfilled in Putin’s Russia, with no political symbol emerging for her…
Christianity’s Decisive Difference
A Letter to Alfred Schütz January 1, 1953 My dear friend, How could I begin the New Year better than with a reply to your kind, so…