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Recent history has been marked by titans, those yearning for
self-mastery in the face of death and denouncing modernity's
tendency to reduce the individual to the lockstep of need and
gratification. But what of those few who rejected these militant
desires to exert supremacy over all? The story recounted in Against
the Titans: The Theology of the Martyrdom of Alfred Delp examines a
martyr's rejection of the perversion of heroism and sacrifice. The
life of Delp, a Jesuit priest, embodied a Christian theology of
martyrdom articulated against a virile fundamentalism's rejection
of divine sovereignty. Against Ernst Junger's active nihilism, Delp
revealed a more authentic and no less demanding existence that came
not from acquiring self-mastery but rather from an emptying out of
self - an indiferencia, an unselving - through a radical dependence
upon God.
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