American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time. Joshua Mitchell. New York: Encounter Books, 2020. While the United States has enjoyed material prosperity, its…
The purpose of higher education in the United States is one of constant change. From the establishment of Harvard College to the multi-purpose universities of today, higher…
The End of White Christian America. Robert P. Jones. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. R. R. Reno. Washington D.C.:…
Minister, professor, administrator, and editor but probably best known as a cultural historian of modern Christianity, Martin has examined the intersection of religion and politics in America…
The Protestant Reformation has been cited by scholars of European history as contributing to the rise of nationalism, individualism, capitalism, and secularism but not to the development…
Eric Voegelin's treatment of Martin Luther in the History of Political Ideas (henceforth History; page references when not otherwise noted are to vol. IV of the History)…
However luminous the thought of Eric Voegelin may be as a whole, any sensitive reader of his writings on Luther and on the Reformation purportedly inaugurated by…
The very life of Martin Luther (1483-1546) manifested turbulence, over and over. From his troubled youth in Saxony (Erikson, 1958/1962), through his contretemps against the Roman Catholic…
In the past essays I have spoken about one of the obstacles that today’s multiversity confronts: the creation of the conditions of genuine learning. The vast creation…
The Reformation movements of fifteenth-century Europe have been variously described as a cultural advance, a civilizational disruption with continuities, a religious revival, a heresy of "invincible error…
The genius of Eric Voegelin is perhaps most apparent in his insight that the crisis of Modernity springs less from the naturalistic relativism that followed modem science…
Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics. Ralph C. Hancock. St. Augustine Press, 2011. Leo Strauss’s injunction to endeavor to understand an author as he understood…
Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics. Ralph C. Hancock. Cornell University Press, 1989. I first became aware of the problem of the relationship between Calvinism…
The review of my Calvin by Glenn Moots and Stephen Wolfe leaves me, I’m afraid, with the all-too-familiar task of explaining that the book I wrote is…
Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics. Ralph C. Hancock. St. Augustine’s Press, 2011. I. This year marks the 500th anniversary of the publication of Luther’s…