John Carter Wood

This is Your Hour

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

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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'. Led by the missionary and ecumenist Joseph H. Oldham, the group included prominent writers, thinkers and activists such as T. S. Eliot, John Middleton Murry, Karl Mannheim, John Baillie, Alec Vidler, H. A. Hodges, Christopher Dawson, Kathleen Bliss and Michael Polanyi. The 'Oldham group' saw faith as a uniquely powerful resource for social and cultural renewal, and it represents a fascinating case study of e… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5261-5256-5
EAN: 9781526152565
Produktnummer: 34520743
Verlag: Manchester University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.7 cm 488 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 488

Über den Autor

John Carter Wood is Adjunct Lecturer in Modern History at Johannes Gutenberg University and Affiliated Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History