Through Mud and Barbed Wire: Paul Tillich, Teilhard de Chardin and God after the First World War

Can faith survive war? What can we hope for in a world gone mad?In June 1916, two of the 20th century's greatest religious thinkers found themselves on opposite sides of the battlefield at Verdun. For each it was an experience like no other, but they responded to it very differently, and for each of them it transformed their idea of God, their career and their life. A German Lutheran chaplain and a French Jesuit stretcher-bearer, although separated by only a few hundred yards of mud and bar...