Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical

Volume 44, Issue 1, February 2018

Murray Jardine
Pages 26-42

The Political Implications of William H. Poteat’s Philosophy

Since World War II, political theory has increasingly focused on the question of the origins and nature of the modern age. William H. Poteat’s explication of the Greek and Hebraic ontologies and his argument that modernity is the result of their incoherent combination in Christian theology can provide a framework to synthesize and extend the major competing theories about the modern era.