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 Josep...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wood, J. Carter (John Carter), 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Popular culture > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
History Of Ideas.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century.
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Popular culture
History.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Great Britain > Social life and customs.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Mœurs et coutumes.
Great Britain
Electronic books
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The meetings of 'the Moot'
  • 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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