Nihilism, Its Origin and Nature-- with a Christian Answer

absolute abyss actually alien answer anxiety appears authority basic become blind breakdown called Camus character Christ Christian concept confession confronted death definite despair dignity dreadful emptiness Ernst Jünger ethical ethos everything example existence Existentialism expressed face fact faith fate Faust fear feeling foundation freedom functionary gods Gottfried Benn guilt hand Heidegger HELMUT THIELICKE human idea individual Jakob Burckhardt Karl Jaspers kind living longer lost man's masses Max Stirner meaninglessness Mephistopheles merely metaphysical Midgard serpent modern moral naïve nature ness never Nietzsche nihilism nihilistic Nirvana Nothingness object one's oneself Oswald Spengler overcome perhaps person philosophical political positivism positivist possible precisely purpose question of meaning reality realm reason recognize relation relationship RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES responsibility Sartre schizophrenia seeks sense simply Sisyphus situation speak spirit symbols termite thing thou thought tion Trans truth ultimate whole words