Satan's Woe: The Death of God and Descent of Man

In “God’s Funeral”, A.N. Wilson asserts the nineteenth century’s uncertainty over the literal truth of the Bible led to symptoms of disturbance and a ‘deep sense (personal, political, social) of dissolution’(11). Many Victorians saw "The Death of God” as a symptom of sickness of society: Western materialism and scientific rationalism had led to a society which had lost, not only a sense of the sublime, but its moral cohesion and unity. It had become, in a sense, the Devil’s playground…