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Home: Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Outlook for Christian Culture - Christopher DawsonIn spite of the increasing secularization of culture both in the West and in the world at large, I feel that the outlook for Christian culture is brighter than it has been for a considerable time — perhaps even two hundred and fifty years. Email This Article The Patriarchal Family in History - Christopher DawsonThe family is not a product of culture; it is, as Malinowski shows, “the starting point of all human organization” and “the cradle of nascent culture.” Email This Article The plot to kill the Pope - John O’SullivanThis May will mark the 25 th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II. It took place on May 13, 1981 in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Only a few weeks earlier, on March 30, Ronald Reagan had survived an attempted assassination in Washington. Email This Article The Real History of the Crusades - Thomas F. MaddenMany historians had been trying for some time to set the record straight on the Crusades - misconceptions are all too common. Email This Article The Relevance of Christopher Dawson – Book Review - Gerald J. Russello"Progress and Religion" was perhaps the most influential of Christopher Dawson’s many influential books. Anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religion, and history formed the backdrop for the key idea that religion is the soul of a culture and that a society or culture which has lost its spiritual roots is a dying culture. To Dawson, a return to the Christian culture that had formed Western civilization was the only remedy for a world adrift. Email This Article The Rights of Man - Christopher DawsonIn the victory of the American Revolution European liberals saw the justification of their ideals and the realization of their hopes. It turned the current of the Enlightenment in a political direction and infused a revolutionary purpose into the democratic idealism of Rousseau. Email This Article The Road to Modernity - JAMES HITCHCOCKWestern Civilization is chiefly the product of a dynamic mixture of two elements—the Judaeo-Christian religious tradition and the tradition of rational investigation and artistic creativity coming down from the Greeks. Email This Article The Roots of Muslim Rage - Bernard LewisWhy do so many Muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified. Email This Article The Secularization of the West - James HitchcockThe great religious upheaval of the sixteenth century contributed to the long-term decline of religion and the rise of secularism in the West, although few of the participants could have foreseen this at the time. Email This Article The Spanish Inquisition: Fact Versus Fiction - FR. MARVIN R. O'CONNELLFr. Marvin R. O'Connell convincingly undoes the Black Legend and reveals the historical reality of the Spanish Inquisition. 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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