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Home: Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGEArticles:British Abolition's Faith-Based Roots - Joseph LoconteIn the fierce struggles of the 19th century to abolish slavery, Abraham Lincoln remains the mythic American champion. In Britain, however, that honor belongs to William Wilberforce, the Christian activist and member of Parliament who thundered against the slave trade for 20 years. Email This Article Catholicism and Economics in the Ancient World - Christopher DawsonThe infant Church was born at a time when the greatest state that the world had ever seen was attaining to its full development. And yet the whole splendid building rested on non-moral foundations — often on mere violence and cruelty. Email This Article Charlemagne - EginhardHe was very forward in succouring the poor, and in that gratuitous generosity which the Greeks call alms, so much so that he not only made a point of giving in his own country and his own kingdom, but when he discovered that there were Christians living in poverty in Syria, Egypt, and Africa, at Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Carthage, he had compassion on their wants, and used to send money over the seas to them. Email This Article Christian culture and the lives of the saints - Christopher DawsonWhereas the secular historian is in no way committed to the cultures of the past, the Catholic is bound to the past by his belief in the continuity of tradition, so that he sees all the successive ages of the Church and all the different forms of Christian culture as an organic part of one living whole in which he participates. Email This Article Christian Culture in the Ancient World - Christopher DawsonThe present article is intended as an abstract of a basic course on the elements of Christian culture for the first of these phases (i.e., Christianity in the Ancient, the Medieval, and the Modern World). Email This Article Christianity and Islam in History - Msgr. Walter BrandmüllerI will address the topic of Christianity and Islam by limiting myself to a brief presentation of historical facts, without entering into the specifics of religious and theological dialogue. Email This Article Christianity and Progress - Vincent Carroll and David ShiflettChristians, we are often told, are the people marooned on the wrong side of history. Critics charge that Christians have time and again buttressed hierarchy against equality, patriarchy against women's rights, absolutism against individualism, and small-minded tradition against broad-minded tolerance. Such notions are far from the truth. Email This Article Christianity and the Soul of Europe - Christopher DawsonAnd so too in Western Europe the tendency seems all towards the development of a purely secular type of culture which subordinates the whole of life to practical and economic ends. Nevertheless a civilization that fails to satisfy the needs of man's spiritual nature cannot be permanently successful... Email This Article Christianity as the Soul of the West - Christopher DawsonThe modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution. Email This Article Christopher Dawson - Christ in History - GERALD J. RUSSELLOCatholic historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was probably the most penetrating student of the relationship of religion and culture who has ever written. Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [>>] Pages Updated On: 10-Jun-2008 - 18:50:37
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