In this final volume of the series, John Strickland tells the story of Christendom\'s most tumultuous century.
As the twenty-first century opened, utopia was as elusive as ever, and a Culture of paradise once again beckoned to a civilization exhausted by centuries of secularism..
Communism and liberalism were left after the Second World War to compete for ultimate preeminence, but both would ultimately fail to replace the lost transcendence of the West\'s deep first-millennium past.
Though total warfare seemed to confirm such predictions, a project arose in its wake to rebuild utopia with secular ideologies that, in the case of Nazism, opened the abyss even further.
As nihilism began to cast its menacing shadow on the eve of the First World War, a self-styled antichrist named Friedrich Nietzsche and an obstinately Christian Fyodor Dostoevsky both offered ominous visions of what the West would become if God is dead and any moral act thus becomes permissible.
In this final volume of the series, John Strickland tells the story of Christendom\'s most tumultuous century