A World Without Heroes
The Modern Tragedy

An elegant essay in the tradition of Chesterton, Lewis, Merton, and Muggeridge, George Roches A World without Heroes rebukes secular humanism as the most dehumanizing force of our modern age. This ringing defense of Christianityhumorous, insightful, and uncompromisingtakes careful aim at those ideas which have shriveled the will and faith of the West: Marxism, Dadaism, Aesthetism, Empiricism.We live, says Roche, in a world without heroes, a world which rarely challenges evolution as the origin of all life, an era enervated by materialism, in which to be Christian means to be stereotyped as narrowminded, unenlightened and, worst of all, unscientific. Roche denies this antiheroic vision of humanity in a penetrating study which encompasses four centuries of cultural, intellectual, scientific, and Christian thought.