This book analyzes Eric Voegelins scholarly works from the 1950s and early 1960s and examines the ways in which these works are relevant to the twenty-first century political environment. The collection of essays evaluated in this book cover a wide array of topics that were of great curiosity sixty years ago and still relevant in todays society. The authors in this volume demonstrate that Voegelins erudition on topics such as revolutionary change, ideological fervor, industrialization, globalism, and the place for reason and how it may be cultivated in complex times remains as meaningful today as it was then.

Scott Robinson is assistant professor of political science at Houston Baptist University.Lee Trepanier is professor of political science at Saginaw Valley State University.David Whitney is associate professor of political science at Nicholls State University

Chapter 1: Rethinking Eric Voegelins Interpretation of Liberalism and Its HistoryDavid D. CoreyChapter 2: The Necessity of Moral Communication in a Pluralistic Political EnvironmentScott RobinsonChapter 3: Defenders of Democracy: Freedom and Responsibility in America TodayScott RobinsonChapter 4: The Origins of Scientism: RevisitedDavid N. WhitneyChapter 5: Voegelin, Rawls, and the Persistence of Liberal Civil TheologyGrant HaversChapter 6: The Comparative Politics of Eric VoegelinLee TrepanierChapter 7: The Dream of the Caliphate and the Loss of Reality: An Application of Eric Voegelins The Origins of Totalitarianism and In Search of the GroundScott Philip SegrestChapter 8: The Five Ways of World-EmpireChristopher S. MorrisseyChapter 9: Eric Voegelins 1944 Political Theory and the Pattern of General History: An Account from the Biography of a Philosophizing ConsciousnessNathan Harter