Contesting the Moral High Ground : Popular Moralists in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Series ; v.2.62 .
- McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Series .
Cover -- McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 - The Setting -- 2 - One World, One Faith: The Quest for Unity in Julian Huxley's Religion of Evolutionary Humanism -- 3 - Bertrand Russell: Reason, Love, and the Conquest of Fear -- 4 - Heaven in Heaven: The Cultural Apostasy of Malcolm Muggeridge -- 5 - Barbara Ward and the Social Conscience of Christianity -- Conclusion and Legacy -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.
How four of Britain's best-known thinkers influenced the public consciousness on issues from God to the environment.