Ethics must be reoriented from normative to creative foundations. Nietzsche was right in his rebellion against normative ethics and legalistic Christianity but he mistook it for Christianity as such, whereas Christianity appeals to creativity. God will judge people not only for their observation of law but for their creative self-realization. The humanistic epoch comes to an end and new Middle Ages begin. This means that man can no more be self-confident and indifferent to God and pursue purely secular goals.
Religiosity comes again to replace humanistic self-assertion and secular individualism.
As distinct from old Middle Ages, new Middle Ages presuppose not obedience to Church but free search for God. Both break through the individualism and materialism of the previous, bourgeois epoch and attempt to build God's kingdom on the earth or anticipate the end of history and God's kingdom in the heaven. Man is free to choose between the religion of Satan and the religion of God, but a contemporary man, either a communist or a believer, cannot help being religious. Eschatology may be a passive expectation of God's invasion into history, or it may be an active preparation for the end of history. Active eschatology presupposes that human creativity will expand beyond the symbolical world of culture and will transform reality.