The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis, by Alan Jacobs

Amid war, intellectual believers worked to imagine a future peacetime society, learns Leo Mellor

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November 8, 2018
Last updated
November 8, 2018
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They have eyes but cannot see: racked by conflict, people were wrongly seeking technical solutions for what were ‘problems of life’, the writers believed

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Print headline: Let there be light again

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