McGilchrist Finds Gnosticism . . . and the Thought of Eric Voegelin
I've maintained for years that these two thinkers needed to get together. It finally happened.
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Eric Voegelin
A collection of 9 issues
The Pilgrim Plague
Ah, the elite progressive white people. Those insufferable, self-righteous bastards who've managed to infect the American psyche with their millenarian madness for centuries. It's a flippin’ disease, a gnostic virus that's been festering in our national bloodstream since the first Puritan set his
What de Lubac Would Think About the Synod on Synodality
Robert Imbelli at First Things
Eric Voegelin: Timeline Biographical Sketch
1901: Born in Cologne.
1910: Moved to Vienna.
1922: Received doctorate in political science from the University of Vienna. While there, he attended seminars by Ludwig von Mises and developed a lasting friendship with F.A. Hayek.
1922-1926: Studied at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford, Columbia, Harvard, and
Ellis Sandoz, RIP
The Voegelin community is a puzzling one.
To an outsider (i.e., to me), it seems insular but enthusiastic. It's like they're on their own island and eagerly invite others to the island but with one requirement: the others already be on the island.
And what
Hamlet in the Metaxy
By Stephen Conlin at The Imaginative Conservative
Introducing Eric Voegelin
Voegelin was not charismatic. He was a “gentleman thinker.” He didn’t like small talk and valued his time. His personality didn’t attract a cult-like following. He didn’t establish a school or movement. But he’s important.
Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Put Gnosticism Back into Our Awareness
💡If you want to understand how gnosticism flourishes in our modern world, you need to understand why it developed in the ancient world
Time magazine ran a peculiar feature in 1953.
It used a five-page analysis of The New Science of Politics to celebrate the magazine’s 30th anniversary,
Those Hippy Puritans
Exploring America's Millenarian Movements
💡The Puritans were Gnostics. If you understand Puritans, you start to understand modern Gnosticism. If you understand modern Gnosticism, you begin to see the glaring problem that is modernity.
We are a nation held together, paradoxically, by the agonism of conflicting millenarian projections: communists,