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    The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
    The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
    The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
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    The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis

    Written by Alan Jacobs

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    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. 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateAug 28, 2018
    ISBN9781684415717
    The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
    Author

    Alan Jacobs

    Alan Jacobs is professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. He is the author of several books, including most recently The Narnian, a biography of C. S. Lewis. His literary and cultural criticism has appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including the Boston Globe, The American Scholar, First Things, Books & Culture, and The Oxford American.

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      It was a good book. I really enjoyed it. I always love to find out about debates and discussions of different times that I'm ignorant of. It ends on a sad note though because you have too see the modern world and realize how badly these great men were defeated.