"For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death……" — David Bentley Hart

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in… - David Bentley Hart

"For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open."

— David Bentley Hart

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