THE DESECRATION OF MAN

Speaking to an audience at the height of the Second World War, Lewis identified the central problem of the modern age: Yet the processes themselves are the result of human activity. For Nietzsche, the death of God, though placing a terrifying responsibility on the shoulders of human beings, is a necessary precondition for man's self-transcendence. The faith is desecrated, but not by the actions of any particular individual-rather, by the chaos of a war supercharged by the power of industry, the fruit of a coincidental confluence of numerous aspects of modernity.