Christian Modernism in an Age of Totalitarianism: T.S. Eliot, Karl Mannheim and the Moot

Cover\nContents\nList of Abbreviations\nAcknowledgements\n1 Introduction: The Moot and Modernism\n	Brief overview of the Moot\n	Political Modernism: Decadence and revival\n	The Moot as a Modernist experiment\n	The Moot, Modernism and Christianity\n	Notes on Sources and Methodology\n2 The Moot and Civilizational Crisis\n	Introduction\n	Christianity and crisis\n	The Moot and crisis\n	Conclusion\n3 The Rebirth of Christendom\n	Introduction\n	New beginnings through a New Christendom\n	Maritain’s neo-Thomism, medieval modernism and the Moot\n	The influence of Jacques Maritain’s True Humanism on the Moot\n	Lessons from medieval Christendom\n	Planning for Freedom\n	Conclusion: ‘Programmatic Modernism’, prospects and tensions\n4 ‘Why We Hate the Gestapo’: Liberalism, Totalitarianism and the Third Way\n	Introduction\n	The Church, Community and State conference, and Christian totalitarianism\n	The Moot on liberalism and democracy\n	Engaging with the political alternatives\n	Conclusion\n5 Conflicts in Light of Modernism: T. S. Eliot and Karl Mannheim in Dialogue\n	Introduction\n	Eliot and Mannheim at the Moot\n	Common ground\n	Clashes on the transformation of culture\n	Humanism versus Christian theism\n	Conclusion\n6 The Moot as a Revitalisation Movement\n	Introduction\n	Creating a Manifesto\n	Oldham’s councils\n	The Formation of an Order\n	New education, new man\n	Channels of dissemination\n	Revolutionary or reformist?\n	Conclusion: The Moot’s failed revolution\n7 Conclusion\n	Modernist interpretive framing\n	Theoretical gains\n	Legacy of the Moot\nAppendix: List of the Moot Members\n	Regular members\n	Visitors\nArchives\nBibliography\nIndex