Word: mounier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earth's Disorder. One of the more trenchant discussions of the subject has appeared in the French magazine Esprit, written by its editor, Personalist Philosopher Emmanuel Mounier. Like Easton, Mounier believes that neither the atom bomb nor any technical invention can have the slightest significance for the Christian interpretation of history. God's ending of the world and man's ending of it would be as different in essence as the setting of the sun and the snuffing of a candle...
With the approach of the first millennium 947 years ago, says Mounier, man also looked to the destruction of his world. "The word 'apocalypse' has become synonymous, in the contemporary mind, with catastrophe and terror. This is a gross misunderstanding. I do not mean that the [10th Century] Christians . . . felt no holy terror at the idea of judgment and divine justice. They were neither better nor worse than we are, but they viewed their weaknesses from a high moral perspective. They thought that Justice would be severe, but they knew that the severity would be just. . . . Even when...
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