The Year of Our Lord 1943

Explore the thoughts and ideas of Jacques Maritain, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil in The Year of Our Lord 1943. As WWII draws to a close, these Christian intellectuals express their concerns about the cultural and moral unpreparedness of the soon-to-be victorious nations. They argue that education grounded in a Christian understanding of human beings is necessary for the renewal of democracy. Alan Jacobs examines the poems, novels, essays, reviews, and lectures of these five central figures, offering a strikingly consistent argument about the path forward for the Western democracies.