Eric Voegelin’s Theory of Revelation

ERIC VOEGELIN'S THEORY OF REVELATION IN VIEW OF the intensity, as well as the frequently nonrational character, of both political and religious commitments , a writer who would attempt to explore these areas and to raise reflection on them to the level of genuinely theoretical understanding would have to be courageous-willing to endure unreasoned reactions, as well as to face clearly and take account 0:£ reasoned criticism. That Eric Voegelin's studies of the history 0:£ order in several of the major civilizations of Abbreviations of the works of Eric Voegelin cited in the text: BOOKS: Anam. FER Anamne11.is: Zur Theorie der Geschichte und Politik (Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1966). From Enlightenment to Revolution, ed. John H. Hallowell, (Durham , North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1975). NSP The N