Man in a World without God
The article discusses the gulf between the Christian and the secular view of man. Anthropocentric humanism is characterized by the rejection of the natural (moral) law, which has been supplanted by law positivism. So-called rights are disconnected from the moral law and from the moral duties from which they derive. As the idea of “essence” (that which gives a being its identity) is abolished, man can be redefined at will, and “the right to life” is being conceived as a relative, highly conditional right.