This is Your Hour

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

John Carter Wood (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2020
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5256-5 (ISBN)

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This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking ‘middle ways’ through what has been called the ‘age of extremes’, the group sought to apply faith to the social order, influence public opinion and inspire a social renewal in the years surrounding the Second World War. -- .

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 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 order. -- .

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

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 -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	9 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5261-5256-8 / 1526152568
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-5256-5 / 9781526152565
Zustand	Neuware