By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would
win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became
increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of
the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not
culturally or morally prepared for their success. A war won by
technological superiority merely laid the groundwork for a post-war
society governed by technocrats. These Christian intellectuals-Jacques
Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil,
among others-sought both to articulate a sober and reflective critique
of their own culture and to outline a plan for the moral and spiritual
regeneration of their countries in the post-war world. In this book,
Alan Jacobs explores the poems, novels, essays, reviews, and lectures
of these five central figures, in which they presented, with great
imaginative energy and force, pictures of the very different paths now
set before the Western democracies. Working mostly separately and in
ignorance of one another's ideas, the five developed a strikingly
consistent argument that the only means by which democratic societies
could be prepared for their world-wide economic and political
dominance was through a renewal of education that was grounded in a
Christian understanding of the power and limitations of human beings.
_The Year of Our Lord 1943_ is the first book to weave together the
ideas of these five intellectuals and shows why, in a time of
unprecedented total war, they all thought it vital to restore
Christianity to a leading role in the renewal of the Western
democracies.
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9780190864675
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2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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