Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence
Etty Hillesum had to reintroduce or restore the values that were under attack by Nazi terror. She faced her path with at least two sets of symbols:…
Etty Hillesum: Exegesis of a Mystic’s Experience
Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence: A Voegelinian Analysis. Mein G.S. Coetsier. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2008. Meins G.S. Coetsier has written a…
The Scandal of Divine Presence
"I will be there with you." One of the most extraordinary moments in the history of revelation is God’s response to Moses’ question: “They will say to…
Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order
Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order. Jeffrey C. Herndon. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Jeffrey Herndon notes in his introduction to…
From Piaget to the Tetragrammaton: Religious Thought and Psychological Development
Worldview and Mind: Religious Thought and Psychological Development. Eugene Webb. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. 2009. Let it be understood up front that Worldview and…
Eric Voegelin Invades Poland
Problem ladu politycznego. eseje o mysli Erica Voegelina (The Problem of Political Order. Essays on the Thought of Eric Voegelin), forward by Michal. J. Czarnecki. Warszawa: Fudnacja…
The Other: Islam and September 11th, 2011
Posterity may know we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream. – Richard Hooker After the murderous events of…
Voegelin on the Christian Imperium in the Middle Ages (Part II)
The Investiture Controversy and the Contraction of Reality The dispute that began in the conflict between Gregory VII (d. 1085) and Henry IV (d. 1108) known as…
John: A Novel
John: A Novel. Niall Williams. New York: Bloomsbury USA. 2008. "The question came to me out of the blue," Irish writer Niall Williams writes. "What was…
Voegelin on the Christian Imperium in the Middle Ages (Part I)
A Preliminary: Voegelin's "Political Ideas" In the introduction to the History of Political Ideas, Voegelin writes, "the function proper of order is the creation of a shelter…
Havers Replies to Lincoln Review
Professor Glenn Moots concludes his review on the critical note that my study of Lincoln’s usage of Christian charity will be valued only by readers who need…
More Lincoln; Less Political Debate
Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love. Grant N. Havers. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009. The central argument of Professor Havers’s new book is…
The Genealogy of Islamic Terrorism
There are major differences between the way that the political implications of Islam have been worked out historically and the political order of liberal, constitutional democracy. It…
Reflections on Fides et Ratio
On this occasion we will consider the Encyclical Letter of John Paul II, Faith and Reason (Fides et ratio), which he released on September 15th, 1998. We…
History and the Holy Koran
In the course of the analysis of Islamist terrorism, we made a basic analytical distinction that needs to be discussed in more detail. On the one hand,…