Caught in the midst of the modernist whirlwind, which, as taught by Pope Pius X, is a “synthesis of all heresies,”[i] we see how all teachings of fait.
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Four centuries and more of modern thought have been, from one point of view, an experiment in the possibilities of knowledge open to man, assuming that there is no Revealed Truth. Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age, by Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose We are living in the conclusion of this experiment. As Fr. Rose puts it, “if there is no Revealed Truth, there is no truth at all….” It can’t be, you say. Well, when a man can choose to be a woman, and vice versa, when a flu can cause the world to panic, when box cutters can lead … Continue reading →
That there is no truth; that there is no absolute state of affairs – no ‘thing-in-itself.’ This alone is Nihilism, and of the most extreme kind. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age, by Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose 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, on Nihilism, has come down to us in completed form. – From the back cover Although he was not … Continue reading →