Modernities Suicide

This paragraph from Robert W. Jenson's essay, "How the World Lost Its Story" reminds me of G.K. Chesterton's comments on The Suicide of Thought in his book, Orthodoxy.

"The modern world, the world that instrumental and critical reason built, is falling about us.  Modernity, it now becomes evident, has been all along eroding its own foundations; its projects and comforts have depended on an inheritance to which it has itself been inimical...Analysts from all relevant disciplines converge on one insight: modernity has lived on a moral and intellectual capital that it has not renewed, and indeed could not have renewed without denying itself.  They moreover agree that this intellectual and moral capital was that built up by the Christian church's long establishment in the West, even if they themselves do no share the church's faith or even admire it."