Nihilism, its origin and nature-- with a Christian answer
by Helmut Thielicke
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Professor Thielicke's lectures on nihilism deal with the experience of nothingness in Europe after World War II, and trace the development of the ism which attempts to interpret that experience.Tags
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- Canonical title*
- Der Nihilismus : Entstehung, Wesen, Überwindung
- Original title
- Der Nihilismus
- Original publication date
- 1951
- Epigraph
- As I fell down and peered into the shining cosmos, I beheld the uplifted coils of the great serpent of eternity all twined about the universe. And then the coils began to writhe and wound themselves around the universe twice ... (show all)as tightly as before; they entwined all nature in a thousand folds, they crushed the worlds together and compressed and reduced the infinite temple into a little churchyard chapel. Everything grew narrow, constricted, somber, dreadful. And an immensely prolonged toll of a bell was about to strike the last hour of time ... when I awoke. My would wept for joy that I was again able to worship God - and the joy and the weeping and the faith in Him were my prayer. - Jean Paul, Dream of a World Without God
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. -Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey - First words
- We may be permitted to begin with the rather banal statement that the word "nihilism" is derived from nihil, "nothing," and the even more obvious statement that the word ends with "ism".
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Only the man who seeks in despair and walks upon the thin ice above the unfathomable void, and from there - but only from there - looks out for the saving beacon, can have the comfort of that insight of Pascal: We would not seek thee, O God, if thou hadst not already found us.
- Original language
- German
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 149.8 — Philosophy & psychology Philosophical schools of thought Other philosophical systems and doctrines Nihilism
- LCC
- B828.3 .T513 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General) By period Modern Special topics and schools of philosophy
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