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Why is Thomist Feser pushing Voegelin who promoted a type of Modernist "Existential Experience" Gnosticism?

" Modernism, however, being the synthesis of all heresies, necessarily requires the violation of this principle of non-contradiction. And it is Henri de Lubac who 'formalized' a particular philosophy to enshrine and justify the principle of self-contradiction into theology. The fundamental means which he employs to disguise and 'sanctify' such an aberration is the concept of 'paradox.'" - James Larson Recently, Catholic philosopher Edward Feser decided to promote the problematic "existential experience" Modernist thinker Eric Voegelin: "Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was among the most important thinkers to analyze modernity under the category of heresy, and the specific heresy he regarded as the key to the analysis was  Gnosticism .  The Gnostic heresy is one that has recurred many times in the long history of the Church, under various guises – Marcionism, Manicheanism, Paulicianism, Al...