Modern history has been marked by the emergence of the figure of the titan, who yearns for self-mastery in the face of death and who denounces denouncing modernity’s tendency to reduce the individual to the lockstep of need and gratification. But what of those few who rejected the impulses of the titan, those militant desires to exert supremacy over all? The story recounted in Against the Titans: The Theology of the Martyrdom of Alfred Delp examines one martyr’s rejection of...
