The Great War And The Death Of God

This Book Attributes The Success Of The Atheistic Cosmology In Displacing The Deeply Rooted Belief In Nature's Divine Governance To The First World War And Its Effect On Western Theology, Philosophy, Literature, And ArtThe Catastrophic Great War Left Humanity In AWorld No Longer Trustworthy And Reassuring But Seemingly Meaningless And IndifferentInstead Of Redressing Humanity's Cosmic Alienation, Postwar Western Culture Abandoned Its Concern For Cosmic Meaning, Lost Its Confidence In Human Reason, And Enabled The Scientific Worldview Of Neodarwinian Materialism To Emerge And Eventually Dominate The Western MindAccording To The Proponents Of That Worldview, Science Is The Only Source Of Genuine Truth, Nature Is The Product Of ABlind Evolutionary Process, And Reality At Bottom Is Just Physics And ChemistryThus, God Is Dead And Continued Belief In ATranscendently Purposeful Universe Is Intellectually Indefensible And Either Disingenuous Or DelusionalThis Book Attributes The Remarkable Success Of This Atheistic Cosmology In Displacing The Deeply Rooted Belief In The Nature's Divine Governance To The First World War And Its Effect On Western Theology, Philosophy, Literature, And ArtBy Turning Away From The Eternal Questions About The Nature Of Reality, Western Culture Effectively Ceded Unwarranted Credibility And Prominence To Neodarwinian Materialism, Including Its Recently Strident New Atheism'i Found This Topic To Be ToprateThe Book Is Well Researched And Conceived, Nicely Narrated And Analyzed, And An Original Body Of Inquiry Into AChallenging, Fascinating Intellectual Tradition.' ?ronald MJohnson, Professor Emeritus Of American History, Georgetown University'what This Book Has And Many Other Such Critiques Generally Lack, Is APolished Awareness Of How The Great War Contributed To The Enshrinement Of Materialism As An Authoritative And Influential Cultural Motif In Twentieth And Twentiethfirst Century Thought And Artistic Expression.' ?john FHaught, Professor Emeritus Of Theology, Georgetown University'in The Great War And The Death Of God, O'connor Revisits The th Century's Journey From Nietzsche's Declaration Of The 'death Of God' To The Rise Of Materialism As The Dominant Worldview Of Western IntelligentsiaWe Live In AWorld That Has Largely Expelled Both Mind And Meaning From The Citadels Of Serious Intellectual Pursuit, And O'connor's Book Is AFascinating And Scholarly Expedition Into The 'how' And 'why' Of
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