Nihilism - The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

In the book: ”Nihilism - The Root of The Revolution of the Modern Age” Fr. Seraphim Rose analyzes the spiritual causes behind the modern revolution. He looks on the revolt of nihilism as a spiritual revolt against God and every form of authority. In the religious order Nihilism seeks, not a mere reform of the Church and not even the foundation of a new ”church” or ”religion”, but a complete refashioning of the idea of religion and of spiritual experience. In art and literature the Nihilist is not concerned with the modification of old aesthetic canons regarding subject-matter style, nor with the development of new genres or traditions, but with a whole new approach to the question of artistic ”creation” and a new definition of ”art”... The disorder so apparent in contemporary politics, religion, art, and other realms as well, is a result of the deliberate and systematic annihilation of the foundation of the authority in them...Of this age the Nihilist regimes of this century have given a foretaste, and the widespread rebelliousness of the present day is further portent; where there is no truth, the rebellious will reigns. But ”the will”, said Dostoyevsky, with his customary insight into the Nihilist mentality, ”is closest to nothing; the most assertive are closest to the most nihilistic” He who has abandoned truth and every authority founded upon that truth has only blind will between himself and the Abyss; and this will, whatever its spectacular achievements in its brief moment of power (those of Hitler and of Bolshevism have so far been the most spectacular), is irresistibly drawn to that Abyss as to some immense magnet that has searched out the answering abyss within itself.

THE FOLLY Of AUTONOMY

I recently read this quote from a member of a Freewill Baptist Church in response to a Freewill Baptist church in KY that excluded a racially mixed couple:
"That’s the problem with autonomy. Biblically illiterate and unspiritually guided kooks have nobody they HAVE to answer to. All the official stances and resolutions that could be made from here to eternity are unenforceable in reality. It’s time to rethink this position for the sake of preserving dignity in the denomination."

Didn't she just describe most/all of Protestantism and Evangelicalism? Doesn't everyone have the right to their private interpretations? Sounds like one Freewill Baptist is questioning the very foundation of the Reformation and the congregational form of government which is supposed to be based in Scripture. But then who's to say, since everyone has complete autonomy?