The 1880s saw the birth of a remarkable group of figures: William Temple, Teilhard de Chardin, James Joyce, D. Fir Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, to name only a few. All attained maturity in the decade immediately preceding the First World War, but they differed markedly from one another. In this book, Dr Dillistone looks at the careers of five pairs of men born in this period, all eminent in some department of the arts or the...