Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age - Softcover

Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0938635158 ISBN 13: 9780938635154

Publisher: Saint Herman Pr, 1994

Synopsis

In 1962, the young Eugene Rose undertook to write a monumental chronicle of the abandonment of Truth in the modern age. Of the hundreds of pages of material he compiled for this work, only the present essay has come down to us in completed form. Here Eugene reveals the core of all modern thought and life--the belief that all truth is relative--and shows how this belief has been translated into action in our century. Today, three decades after he wrote it, this essay is surely timelier than ever. It clearly explains why contemporary ideas, values, and attitudes--the "spirit of the age"--are shifting so rapidly in the direction of moral anarchy, as the philosophy of Nihilism enters more deeply into the fiber of society. Nietszche was right when he predicted that the 20th century would usher in "the triumph of Nihilism."

Indeed, the Christian is--in an ultimate sense--a "Nihilist"; to him, in the end, the world is nothing, and God is all. On the one hand, the true Nihilist places his faith in things that pass away and end in nothing. On the other hand, the Christian, renouncing such vanity, places his faith in the one thing that will not pass away, the Kingdom of God.

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About the Author

Fr. Seraphim Rose (1934-1982) was an Orthodox monk in the ancient tradition that dedicated his life to reawakening modern Western man to forgotten spiritual truths. From his remote cabin in the mountains of northern California, he produced writings, which have been circulated throughout the world in millions of copies. Today he is Russia's best-loved spiritual writer. His books Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future and The Soul After Death have changed countless lives with their uncompromising and sobering truth.

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What does Nihilism mean? That the highest values are losing their value. There is no goal...There is no Truth, no 'thing in itself.' There is no answer to the question: why? --Friedrich Nietszche

Atheism, true 'existential atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God...Nietszche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.

Edition details

• Publisher: Saint Herman Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0938635158
• ISBN 13: 9780938635154
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100