"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
At a certain level of this problem, I can hear ya, lds23. But what you describe does not seem to me to be an occasion for despair; for the Christian virtue of hope is still alive notwithstanding: It seems to me you haven't quite thought through the ramifications of what Voegelin has propounded in this essay....
You can slice and dice reality any which way you want to. But IMHO the point is (and always will be): God always gets the "last word." And that is the very constitution of hope itself for simple folk like me....
And I think the phrase goes, "my dear Horatio...." Let's not leave out that little obeisance of "routine", customary human courtesy/commerce here....
Please, bb. Give us something quotable--like Cicero.
(p.s. V thought C's writings were hieroglyphic!)