War at Lent: How Ukraine Could Reshape Christian Unity

In his 1992 book "The End of History and the Last Man," political scientist Francis Fukuyama provocatively and hopefully suggested that authoritarian and collectivist political regimes were on their way out. The end of history did not mean that events would cease, of course, but rather that we had reached "the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." While not an overtly religious argument, some critics, including the philosopher Jacques Derrida, viewed Fukuyama's thesis as a kind of Christian eschatology, more prosaically known as the End Times.