Alan Jacobs (Distinguish Distinguished Professor of the Humanities

The Year of Our Lord 1943

Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

The Year of Our Lord 1943 tells the story of how five Christian intellectuals - Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil - sought to provide a plan for the moral and spiritual renewal of the Western democracies in the post-World War II world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780190864651
• ISBN-10: 0190864656
• Artikelnr.: 49961463

Autorenporträt

Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. His most recent books are The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography and a critical edition of W. H. Audens long poem For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
A Note on Narrative Method
Dramatis Personae: 1 September 1939
Chapter 1: "Prosper, O Lord, Our Righteous Cause"
Chapter 2: The Humanist Inheritance
Chapter 3: Learning in War-Time
Chapter 4: Demons
Chapter 5: Force
Chapter 6: The Year of Our Lord 1943
Chapter 7: Approaching the End
Afterword: Stunde Null
Bibliography