Fear

"Our generation is strangled by fear: fear of man, for his future, and for the direction in which we are driven against our will and desire. And out of this comes a cry of illumination concerning the meaning of the existence of mankind, and concerning the goal to which we are directed. It is a cry for an answer to the old question of the meaning of history."

Hendrikus Berkhof Qtd. by Anthony A Hoekema, The Bible and The Future, p.23