The Reality of Politics and the Relevance of Voegelin (Part I)
It was a day in early September 2012. I went to see a friend at All Sages Bookstore, perhaps the most popular bookshop among intellectuals in Beijing.…
It was a day in early September 2012. I went to see a friend at All Sages Bookstore, perhaps the most popular bookshop among intellectuals in Beijing.…
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 Covenants from Abraham to David We will consider here the merits and limitations of covenantal social thinking and ask whether such ideas have relevance today. While…
Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology. Glenn A. Moots. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2010. I suspect that Glenn Moots is a great…
The Face of God. Roger Scruton. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. The Face of God, the most recent book by the prolific English philosopher Roger Scruton,…
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…
This interview is in light of Brendan Purcell's essay, "Voegelin and Theology Today" on Fred Lawrence’s article, "Eric Voegelin: Mystical Philosopher and Scientist." Vv: Is there…
The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science. Bruce L. Gordon and William A. Dembski, eds. Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute Books, 2011. …
A Reflection of 20 Years I’ve been asked, in light of the contrasting interpretations of Jürgen Gebhardt and Paul Caringella, and Fred Lawrence’s article that works on…
In speaking . . . about the experiences of the mystic philosophers and their fulfillment through Christianity, an assumption concerning history is implied that must be explicated.…
The Father's Tale: A Novel. Michael D. O'Brien. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2011. Many years ago I came across a mordantly witty book review: “The…
At a time when the reality of the gospel threatens to fall apart into the constructions of an historical Jesus and a doctrinal Christ, one cannot stress…
Christians as Political Animals: Taking the Measure of Modernity and Modern Democracy. Marc Guerra. Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2010. The book is an Augustinian-inspired critique…
What was Eric Voegelin’s relationship to Christianity? Was Voegelin a Christian? Is his philosophy a Christian philosophy? These complicated personal and scholarly questions must be divided and…
Church, State, and Society: An Introduction to Catholic Social Doctrines. Brian Benestad. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2011. With this book, Professor Benestad makes…