The Intoxication of Power: An Analysis of Civil Religion in Relation to Ideology (Sovietica, 43)

## PREFACE xi purely earthly meaning, which is, to a great extent, his search for power to determine and satisfy his earthly desires. A few acknowledgments are in order. The Earhart Foundation of Ann Arbor, Michigan, supported me with a grant while I did the research for the first part of this book, and during the same time the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America gave me a special post-doctoral research appointment. My philosophical debt to Eric Voegelin should be fairly obvious to those familiar with his work, but my debt to Professor Gerhart Niemeyer, although less obvious, is the greater. It was his suggestion that got the second part of the book underway as my doctoral dissertation six years ago and during the course of that work he contributed many suggestions and criticisms and much general influence. My thanks also to Professors Joseph Evans, Walter Nicgorski, and Edward Goerner of the University of Notre Dame, who read the second part of this book in its dissertation form and provided many helpful suggestions. To my parents lowe much for all their support over the years, and for the fmishing of this book lowe a special debt of gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. When the Soviet people will enjoy the God) wQl com11Ul1ld a ble', ing on u, In ble,"ngr of Communism, new hundred, all our way" '0 that we, hall, ee much more of Hi, wisdom, power, goodnell8, of mOlion, of people on earth will BIly: and truth than we have formerly known. 'We are for CommuniBml' It i, not We, haH find that the God of I8TIlei is through war with other countries, but by, among U', and ten of us shall be able to the example of a more perfect organiza- tion of society, by rapid progress in rellist a thouBIlnd of our enemie, . The Lord will make our name a prai, e and developing the productive force, the creation of all conditions for the happi- glory, '0 that men 'hall BIlY of succeed- ing plantation: 'The Lord make it like ness and well-being of man, that the that of New England'. For we must con- ideaB of Communism win the mind, and sider that we Ilhall be like a city upon a hearts of the masses. Hill; the eye, of all people are on u, . The force of Bocial progress will in- evitably grow in aU countries, and this John Winthrop to early Puritan will assist the builden of CommuniBm in settlers in America, 1630 the Soviet Union. Programme of the C. P. S. U. When the Soviet people will enjoy the [God) wQl com11Ul1ld a ble', ing on u, In ble, "ngr of Communism, new hundred, all our way" '0 that we, hall, ee much more of Hi, wisdom, power, goodnell8, of mOlion, of people on earth will BIly: and truth than we have formerly known. 'We are for CommuniBml' It i, not We, haH find that the God of I8TIlei is through war with other countries, but by, among U', and ten of us shall be able to the example of a more perfect organiza tion of society, by rapid progress in rellist a thouBIlnd of our enemie, . The Lord will make our name a prai, e and developing the productive force, the creation of all conditions for the happi glory, '0 that men 'hall BIlY of succeed ing plantation, : 'The Lord make it like ness and well-being of man, that the that of New England'. For we must con ideaB of Communism win the mind, and sider that we Ilhall be like a city upon a hearts of the masses. Hill; the eye, of all people are on u, . The force of Bocial progress will in evitably grow in aU countries, and this John Winthrop to early Puritan will assist the builden of CommuniBm in settlers in America, 1630 the Soviet Union. Programme of the C.P.S.U Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Foundations: The Roman Civil Religion....Pages 1-22 Errand into the Wilderness: The City upon a Hill....Pages 23-42 The Reordering of the Cosmos....Pages 43-60 The Public Philosophy....Pages 61-80 The Civil Theology: Myths of Destiny....Pages 81-100 Christianity and the Civil Religion....Pages 101-109 Hobbes: The Religion of Terror....Pages 110-131 The Christian Tradition and Hobbes’ Civil Theology....Pages 132-149 Rousseau: The Religion of Self-Love....Pages 150-174 Saint-Simon and Comte: The Religion of Progress....Pages 175-193 Hegel and Marxism-Leninism: The Resolution of the Conflict....Pages 194-222 Postscript....Pages 223-227 Back Matter....Pages 228-234