Eric Voegelin and Alfred Schütz
A Friendship That Lasted a Lifetime: The Correspondence Between Alfred Schütz and Eric Voegelin. Gerhard Wagner and Gilbert Weiss, eds, and William Petropulos, trans. Columbia, MO: University…
The Historical Horizon: Classical and Christian Experiences
In speaking . . . about the experiences of the mystic philosophers and their fulfillment through Christianity, an assumption concerning history is implied that must be explicated.…
Eric Voegelin: Mystical Philosopher and Scientist
A Modern Father of the Church? At the international Voegelin conference held at the University of Manchester, England, in July 1994, two distinguished Voegelin scholars presented dramatically…
The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel of Divine Presence
"The flux [of divine presence] has the structure of a divine-human encounter; every phase is an event of man’s responding, or refusing to respond, to the presence…
The New Science of Politics at 60 Years
Dear Friends, Here is my report of the conference entitled "60 Years of Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics" which took place on Saturday, December 8,…
Testing the Truth of Man’s Experiences in the In-Between
Man's existence in the In-Between of imperfection and perfection, time and timelessness, mortality and immortality is indeed not an object of sense perception; and the propositions or…
Eric Voegelin’s Israel and Revelation
A Book about Theology or Politics? We propose to consider whether Eric Voegelin’s first volume of Order and History: Israel and Revelation, is a book about theology…
From Bergson to Voegelin The “Chosen People” and the Universal Commonwealth
Popper? A Troublesome Pebble . . . Acknowledging the importance of Henri Bergson’s thought for him, Eric Voegelin wrote: "history of mankind . . . is an…
What is Barack Obama Up To?
Are Things Going to Get Worse? Countless articles have appeared touching on the personality of President Barack Obama without giving a particularly satisfactory account of his actions…
The Divine Sonship: Not a Piece of Information
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…
T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets: A Pattern of Timeless Moments
First Impressions My first encounter with T. S. Eliot's masterpiece, the poem-cycle Four Quartets, took place when I was twenty years old. The conditions were unusually felicitous.…
Emily Dickinson and the Unknown God
Of American poets taught regularly in secondary education, the two most ill-served are Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. Students are typically introduced to these poets through their…
Voegelin’s Relationship to Christianity
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…
Observations on the 28th Annual Eric Voegelin Society Meeting
The 28th annual meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society was held, for the first time, on the campus of Louisiana State University–an appropriate venue, where Voegelin held…
Henry VIII and First Totalitarian State
While continental thinkers groped their way through the troubles of the Reformation toward the idea of an autonomous, secularized polity, England entered the age of Reformation with…