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The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
By Jacobs, Alan
- ISBN
- 9780190864651
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ.
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Reviewed on June 1, 2018 | Spirituality and Religion
With the existential battle between fascism and democracy starting to turn in the Allies favor by 1943, the unresolved question was whether democracy had the inherent resources to sustain the peace. Jacobs (humanities, Baylor Univ.; How To Think) presents five intellectuals—Jacques Maritain, T.S. Elliot, W.H. Auden, C.S. Lewis, and Simone Weil—who separately maintained that democratic societies ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
