Year of Our Lord 1943 - Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis Jacobs Alan Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Baylor UniversityPevná vazba
Year of Our Lord 1943 - Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis Jacobs Alan Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Baylor UniversityPevná vazba By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that…
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Year of Our Lord 1943 - Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis Jacobs Alan Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Baylor UniversityPevná vazba
By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. A war won by technological superiority merely laid the groundwork for a post-war society governed by technocrats. 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.
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 These Christian intellectuals-Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H.