This is Your Hour - Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937-49 Carter Wood JohnPevná vazba
This is Your Hour - Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937-49 Carter Wood JohnPevná vazba In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived…
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This is Your Hour - Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937-49 Carter Wood JohnPevná vazba
In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived cultural collapse in the democratic West - a high-profile group of mostly Christian intellectuals met to map out 'middle ways' through the 'age of extremes'. Oldham, the group included prominent writers, thinkers and activists such as T. S. Led by the missionary and ecumenist Joseph H.
Hodges, Christopher Dawson, Kathleen Bliss and Michael Polanyi. Eliot, John Middleton Murry, Karl Mannheim, John Baillie, Alec Vidler, H. A. The 'Oldham group' saw faith as a uniquely powerful resource for social and cultural renewal, and it represents a fascinating case study of efforts to renew freedom in a dramatic confrontation with totalitarianism.
The group's story will appeal to those interested in the cultural history of the Second World War and the issue of applying faith to the 'modern' social