Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: New York, Sheed
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Dividing of Christendom; Foreword by Douglas Horton
Author: Christopher DawsonPublisher: New York, Sheed
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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.
A Historian and His World
Author: Christina ScottPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813236959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The English historian of culture Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was an independent scholar and the author of more than twenty books. He served as assistant lecturer in the History of Culture, University College, Exeter (1925), Forwood Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion, University of Liverpool (1934), Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (1947-1949), and as Professor of Catholic Studies at Harvard University (1958-1962). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1943 and edited the Dublin Review during the Second World War. This biography by Christina Scott, Dawson's daughter, is a sensitive portrait of a complex and fascinating scholar. Unlike other English Christian converts of the twentieth century who excelled in literature, like G. K. Chesterton or C. S. Lewis, Dawson turned to the social sciences. He drew from the new idea of culture as a common way of life emerging from anthropology at the time of the Great War to shape a new approach to history. His study of the intimate relationship between religion and culture throughout world history shaped his trenchant criticisms of his own times. He wrote in 1955 that, "the first step in the transformation of culture is a change in the pattern of culture within the mind, for this is the seed out of which there spring new forms of life which ultimately change the social way of life and thus create a new culture." Dawson's engagement with anthropology and the idea of culture marked an important moment of development in the Catholic intellectual tradition. Christina Scott shows that Dawson is best understood as he himself interpreted his historical subjects?in the context of "the spiritual world in which he lived, the ideas that moved him, and the faith that inspired his action." Dawson was not a historian of ideas for their own sake; he had a passionate belief in their liberating power. A Historian and His World will be of interest to intellectual historians, historians of religion and culture, and students of modern Catholic thought. The Introduction is written by Dawson scholar Joseph T. Stuart and the book is graced by a postscript by Christopher Dawson reflecting upon the meaning of his work.
Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Author: Edward Clowes ChorleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews."
American Book Publishing Record
Author: Divinings: Religion at Harvard
Author: Rodney L. PetersenPublisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647550566
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1421
Book Description
Harvard has often been referred to as "godless Harvard." This is far from the truth. Fact is that Harvard is and always has been concerned about religion. This volume addresses the reasons for this. The story of religion at Harvard in many ways is the story of religion in the United States. This edition will clarify this relationship. Furthermore, the question of religion is central not only to the religious history of Harvard but to its very corporate structure and institutional evolution. The volume is divided into three parts and deals withthe Formation of Harvard College in 1636 and Evolution of a Republic of Letters in Cambridge ("First Light", Chapters 1–5); Religion in the University, the Foundations of a Learned Ministry and the Development of the Divinity School (The "Augustan Age", Chapters 6–9); and the Contours of Religion and Commitment in an Age of Upheaval and Globalization ("Calm Rising Through Change and Through Storm", Chapters 10–12).The story of the central role played by religion in the development of Harvard is a neglected factor in Harvard's history only touched upon in a most cursory fashion by previous publications. For the first time George H. Williamstells that story as embedded in American culture and subject to intense and continuing academic study throughout the history of the University to this day.Replete with extensive footnotes, this edition will be a treasure to future historians, persons interested in religious history and in the development of theology, at first clearly Reformed and Protestant, later ecumenical and interfaith.
Douglas Horton and the Ecumenical Impulse in American Religion
Author: Theodore Louis TrostPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
He presided over the transformation of the Harvard Divinity School from a near moribund institution to a significant center of religious learning (1955-1959). Toward the end of his life he helped orchestrate the Protestant presence at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). This book presents the first biography of Douglas Horton; it investigates the ecumenical movement as refracted through Horton's extraordinary career."--BOOK JACKET.
Religious Books, 1876-1982
Author: The New York Times Book Review
Author: Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description