Abstract

This work finds some inspiration in the investigations of the late Eric Vogelin, who insisted that the existence of history and man's existence within history result from man's articulation of his experience as ordered to the whole of being and its source. While Langan's enterprise does not explicitly rest on Vogelin's judgment in his Order and History that "God, man, world and society form a primordial community in being," it is within these speculative parameters that he works.