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Secularized Messianism

By Gil Bailie inBlog

Posted on: Apr 21, 2022

In the middle of the last century, Hans Urs von Balthasar worried that the West was “preparing highly developed civilizations for a degenerate materialistic and nihilistic form of Western thought, which expresses the resentments of the inventors of this secularized Messianism.”

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