Alan Jacobs Oxford University Press, New York, 280 pages Amid the horrors of World War II, Christian humanist thinkers came suddenly to see that Christian values were collapsing all around them. Alan Jacobs, a humanities professor at Baylor University, presents the thought of five of these Christian intellectuals: Jacques Maritain, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden and Simone Weil. Though the war was waged with instruments formed by technology, they came to see it primarily as a spiritual conflict. Auden summarized this perspective best: “The English intellectuals who now cry to Heaven against the evil incarnated in Hitler have no […]
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