Eric Voegelin

"The order of history emerges from the history of order" is the sentence that opens Eric Voegelin's multivolume work, Order and History. "The order of history emerges from the history of order" is the sentence that opens Eric Voegelin's multivolume work, Order and History. A search for an understanding of the order that can be found in history, and within the human being who is the subject of history, has resulted in a large and complicated body of work by this contemporary philosopher. Eugene Webb offers a full illumination and assessment of that work.