Relative Truth of Nihilism

‘Nihilism is nearer the truth than humanism, because it recognizes the unknown and indeterminate in every reality and because it is true that without God there is nothing. One can add that humanism is nihilism unable to recognize itself and therefore also naïve or cynical or both’ (Radical Orthodoxy: Twenty-four Theses,” thesis 7)


Quoted in: James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, p. 43 note.44