Post-Holocaust theology: the event as normative

The author argues as a device for asserting the creational power of the individual, modern thinkers have increasingly argued that a normative code of ethics no longer need exist as a legitimate standard for governing human behaviour. This type of situational morality or moral relativism has impacted society and politics in the 20th century, and the Holocaust can be viewed as the most awesome fulfillment of this lack of a transcendent norm.