The Year of Our Lord 1943

Set against the backdrop of 1943, this audiobook explores how prominent Christian intellectuals like Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil critically examined their cultures and envisioned paths for moral and spiritual renewal in the aftermath of World War II. Through their poems, essays, and lectures, they presented diverse visions for the future of Western democracies amid the rise of technological and political change. Alan Jacobs weaves together their ideas to illustrate why, in a time of total war, they championed the reemergence of Christianity as central to societal rebuilding.