A Nuclear Weapon in the Culture War
/Having written several groundbreaking tomes of intellectual and cultural history, E. Michael Jones already has a place among the great Catholic historian-philosophers and philosopher-historians writing today, thinkers like Glenn Olsen, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, John Rao, and Brad Gregory. But with Logos Rising, Jones has truly joined the ranks of the Greats—Etienne Gilson and Christopher Dawson come to mind. Jones’ life work, culminating in this magnum opus, is an outstanding intellectual accomplishment, one of breathtaking scope, depth, and erudition. But Jones has given us more than scholarship. His books serve as an intellectual juggernaut and impregnable arsenal in the culture war—and Logos Rising is its nuclear weapon. Jones has identified, surrounded, and captured the enemies of Logos for us, but not so we can annihilate them. Precisely because they are our enemies, we are to love them, as Jesus commanded, and as Jones has repeatedly urged. Jones moves effortlessly from the luminous heights of theological contemplation and metaphysical analysis to the earthy particulars of historical agency to the shadowy underworld of forensic detective-work—and back again—to give us what Hegel’s idealist and theologically deficient dialectical history didn’t and couldn’t, not the apotheosis of the State, but the presence of logos throughout human history, culminating in the Incarnate Logos and the Church that is and bears His presence and power through “the cunning of history.” Logos is indeed rising, and this is a tour de force that the friends of logos cannot do without, as the Apocalypse quickly approaches.
