The Year of Our Lord 1943 tells the story of how five Christian intellectuals - Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil - sought to provide a plan for the moral and spiritual renewal of the Western democracies in the post-World War II world.

• Preface


• A Note on Narrative Method


• Dramatis Personae: 1 September 1939


• Chapter 1: "Prosper, O Lord, Our Righteous Cause"


• Chapter 2: The Humanist Inheritance


• Chapter 3: Learning in War-Time


• Chapter 4: Demons


• Chapter 5: Force


• Chapter 6: The Year of Our Lord 1943


• Chapter 7: Approaching the End


• Afterword: Stunde Null


• Bibliography

Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. His most recent books are The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography and a critical edition of W. H. Audens long poem For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio.