Sources of Order in History: Voegelin and His Critics
What separates Voegelin from most modern philosophers is not so much a difference of intellect as a difference of imagination.
The Political Moralism of Jacques Ellul
On the most general level, then, his response to modernity is not unlike many others in the post-War period: a rediscovery of some form of personal moral anchor, in opposition to the surrounding sources of disorder, as a way out of the nihilism of the twentieth century.