SOURCE: Schall, James V. Review of Faith and Political Philosophy: The Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964, by Leo Strauss. Review of Metaphysics 47, no. 4 (June 1994): 807-08.

In the following favorable review of Faith and Political Philosophy, Schall contends that “it would be difficult to find a more profound and stimulating book covering the whole history and understanding of faith and reason in Western intellectual history.”

This book [Faith and Political Philosophy: The Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voeglin, 1934-1964] is of fundamental importance in political philosophy as well as in theology, philosophy itself, and history. The fact that it lacks an Index is unconscionable. The book consists of some one hundred six pages of precious correspondence between Strauss and Voegelin, plus a reprinting of Strauss's famous essays “Jerusalem and Athens” and “The Mutual Influence of Theology and Philosophy,” with Voegelin's “The Gospel and Culture” and...