The human encounter with the Divine Reality is often with a personal God. Using Eric Voegelin's hermeneutic, the symbol “Person” is rich in implications, some of which are evident in religious texts, some of which is explicated by John Macmurray and Emmanuel Mournier. These implications...

Several recent works, such as Brian Balogh's Government Out of Sight and Sheldon Pollack's War, Revenues, and State Building, have attacked the “weak state” trope in the American political development literature. My paper intends to assess this revisionist literature. The argument is the...