Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813218187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Medieval Essays is the mature reflection of one of the most gifted cultural historians of the twentieth century.
Medieval Essays (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813218187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Medieval Essays is the mature reflection of one of the most gifted cultural historians of the twentieth century.
Dynamics of World History
Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497651409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In scope and in vision Christopher Dawson’s historiography ranks with the work of men like Spengler, Northrop, and Toynbee. Several major themes run through Dawson’s work, but perhaps his most unique contribution was his insistence on the importance of religion in shaping and sustaining civilizations. Religion, Dawson believed, is the great creative force in any culture, and the loss of a society’s historic religion therefore portends a process of social dissolution. For this reason, Dawson concluded that Western society must find a way to revitalize its spiritual life if it is to avoid irreversible decay. Progress, the real religion of modernity, is insufficient to sustain cultural health. And an ahistorical, secularized Christianity is an oxymoron, a pseudo-religion only nominally related to the historic religion of the West. Dawson maintained that the hope of the present age lay in the reconciliation of the religious tradition of Christianity with the intellectual tradition of humanism and the new knowledge about man and nature provided by modern science. Dynamics of World History shows that though such a task may be difficult, it is not impossible.
Medieval Essays
Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780897601764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Progress and Religion
Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813218195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Progress and Religion was perhaps the most influential of all Christopher Dawson's books, establishing him as an interpreter of history and a historian of ideas.
The Judgment of the Nations
Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813218802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Christopher Dawson wrote The Judgment of the Nations in 1942, in the midst of the horrors of World War II.
The Gods of Revolution
Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813227097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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Understanding Europe (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813215447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In Understanding Europe, Dawson expresses a desire for Europe to rediscover and renew its foundational Christian sources in order to recover a deeper sense of integrity.
MAKING OF EUROPE
Author: CHRISTOPHER. DAWSONPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033006610
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Dividing of Christendom
Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586172387
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Sheed & Ward, 1965.
The Formation of Christendom
Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586172395
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The renowned historian Christopher Dawson devoted his long and brilliant career to precisely the kind of historical research of which theologians and churchmen stand in great need, particularly if they are to meet the authentic demands of the ecumenical e