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- Title: Eric Voegelin's Immanentism: A Man at Odds with the Transcendent?(Part I) (Report)
- Author : Appraisal
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 220 KB
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Introduction I have been interested in the thought of Eric Voegelin for longer than I care to recount, and, during most of this time, I have had a rather traditional understanding of what many perceive to be at the core of the thinking of this great master of the last century, namely, his experientially based focus on the Ground of being. In short, like a good many North American Voegelin scholars, I understood Eric Voegelin to be a deeply religious person, not in any denomination sense of the term, to be sure, and he was certainly not a Christian, as far as I could tell--in this regard, I differed with those Voegelin scholars who believed then, and still believe today, that he was deeply Christian--but he was, in my estimation, someone who was dedicated to retrieving God from the exile into which He had been sent by modern man. I also understood him to be saying that many of the most serious problems of our age--problems both of a personal and societal nature--are directly attributable to modern man's refusal to accept the implications of something about which he is all too aware, namely, the ineluctable experience of the presence of the Transcendent in man's life. Here the focus, for me, was on the word and the reality that is the 'Transcendent.' In the interests of being adult, mature and free, Voegelin informed us that modern man elected to shun God by denying His existence. In fact, modern man surfaced when, like the Marquis de Sade, he concluded that his enemy was not the establishment, not the state and not the Church, but God Himself, and that he (man) could neither be fully human nor wholly free unless and until he banished God from his life. God was the enemy of mankind, and as long as He was around, man would never be who he is called by destiny to be. And so, God would have to go. Of course, coming to this decision was one thing, successfully achieving the objective was quite another, and, in my estimation, Voegelin made this patently obvious. In fact, Voegelin saw both the decision to pursue this goal and the efforts made to achieve it as megalomaniacal, the essence, for him, of the modern dementia.
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