Modern science has given a devastating blow to conventional religion and man’s concept of a purposive universe and his place in it. This resulted in a saddening regression from early-Victorian optimism to a twentieth century despair. Modern man has been threatened by a world created by himself. Burdened with a dogmatic secularism and an opposition to any belief in the transcendental he confronts the question of meaning and tries to rediscover and scrutinise the ...
