John Carter Wood

This is your hour

Christian intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937-49

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking 'middle ways' through what has been called the 'age of extremes', the group sought to apply faith to the social order, influence public opinion and inspire a social renewal in the years surrounding the Second World War. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9781526132536
• ISBN-10: 1526132532
• Artikelnr.: 55089428

Autorenporträt

John Carter Wood is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany and a Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'This is your hour' 1 The 'Oldham group'
1937-49: people
organisations and aims 2 Explorations on the frontier
I Faith and the social order 3 Explorations on the frontier
II Engaging with 'the secular' 4 Between mammon and Marx: capitalism
Communism and 'planning for freedom' 5 'The rock of human sanity stands in the sea where it always stood': nationalism
universalism and Europe 6 'A new order of liberty': freedom
democracy and liberalism 7 'The democratizing of aristocracy': egalitarianism and elitism 8 Conclusion Index