Ever Ancient, Ever New

As the Thomist philosopher Charles DeKoninck once wrote in an obscure and unpublished lecture On Philosophy of History, history does not progress in a purely linear way, nor in a merely cyclical way, nor even in a merely successive process of disconnected moments and events. Rejecting what he termed the univocal and equivocal theories of history, he settled on the truly Thomistic understanding: an anological theory of history, according to which…