Marx's interpretation of history in terms of dialectical materialism gets little sympathy or further encouragement here, in this immense project, since it manifestly fails to match-up to the sort of criteria that derive not from state-hegemonic but from church-hegemonic traditions, being the product, by and large, of a disposition that would be un-Catholic, to say the least. Analogies with Marx there certainly are here, but the investigation of the dialectical process is much deeper and broader, involving both gender and class as well as civilization and, to begin with, the concept of what has been called synthetic attraction, which should become sufficiently intelligible by the time one reaches the fourth book not to require any additional explanation here. Suffice it to say, this is one of John O'Loughlin's most significant projects, and should provide more than enough ideological sustenance to those who, from ethnic predilections, can be expected to be disposed to Social Theocracy and its promise of a better outcome to the historical process than could be envisaged from standpoints axially at variance with church-hegemonic traditions. Father Omega may not be a Catholic priest, but he is certainly someone for whom the promise of metaphysical redemption continues to ring true, and now more than ever.