Eric Voegelin Quotes

#1. The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.

Eric Voegelin

#2. Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

Eric Voegelin

#3. Don't immanentize the eschaton!

Eric Voegelin

#4. The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Eric Voegelin

#5. The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

Eric Voegelin

#6. [Under Marxism] Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come.

Eric Voegelin

#7. Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Eric Voegelin