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Catholic Education Resource Center: Search ResultsYour search returned... 0 Categories 30 LinksLinksChristopher Dawson on Technology and the Demise of Liberalism - RUSSELL HITTINGERI must admit that in previous readings of Dawson's work, I was not persuaded by the critical, if not apocalyptic remarks he made about technology. Read more... Christopher Dawson: A View from the Social Sciences - RUSSELL HITINGERChristopher Dawson's theory of education will go nowhere today. First, it focuses upon Christian culture as being the specific backbone of the West. Read more... The Study of Western Culture - CHRISTOPHER DAWSONOne of the chief defects of modern education has been its failure to find an adequate method for the study of our own civilization. Read more... The Case for the Study of Christian Culture - CHRISTOPHER DAWSONChristian culture is nothing to be ashamed of. It is no narrow sectarian tradition. Read more... Reflections on Catholic Education at the Millennium - J. FRASER FIELDIf Catholic students are not made aware of the great wealth they have inherited in terms of culture, they may well end up, as the great Catholic historian Christopher Dawson predicted, "divided personalities with a Christian faith and a pagan culture which contradict one another continually." Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... The Catholic Church - Christopher DawsonThe religion which was destined to conquer the Roman Empire and to become permanently identified with the life of the West was indeed of purely oriental origin and had no roots in the European past or in the traditions of classical civilisation. Read more... Europe, Christianity, and the Thought of Christopher Dawson - Gerald RusselloA European Constitution that lacks any reference to the continent's Christian roots would be a sign of a dangerous historical blindness, warns a devotee of Catholic historian Christopher Dawson. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... Is the Church too Western? - Christopher DawsonIt is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. Read more... The Nature and Destiny of Man - Christopher DawsonIn her doctrine of man the Catholic Church has always held the middle path between two opposing theories, that which makes man an animal and that which holds him to be a spirit. Catholicism has always insisted that man's nature is twofold. He is neither flesh nor spirit, but a compound of both. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... The Division of Christendom and its Consequences - Christopher DawsonIn the 16th century religion came to be regarded as one among a number of competing interests — a limited department of life, which had no jurisdiction over the rest. And as it lost its universal authority, it lost its universal vision; it became sectionalized and rationalized with the rest of European life. Read more... On Jewish History - Christopher DawsonAnyone who, like myself, has devoted himself to the study of the history of civilizations or of Western culture cannot go far in it without becoming aware of the importance of the Jews. Yet we have to travel a long way before we begin to understand the significance of Jewish history. Read more... The Challenge Of Secularism - Christopher DawsonIt is no accident that the introduction of universal compulsory state education has coincided in time and place with the secularization of modern culture. Read more... 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. Read more... The Vision of Christopher Dawson - Araceli DuqueChristopher H. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century." Despite this, most of his books have been out of print for decades now, and graduate students today are ignorant of his work. Read more... 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.” Read more... The Challenge of Secularism - Christopher DawsonWe are still living internally on the capital of the past and externally on the existence of a vague atmosphere of religious tolerance which has already lost its justification in contemporary secular ideology. It is a precarious situation, which cannot be expected to endure indefinitely and we ought to make the most of it while it lasts. Read more... Civilization in Crisis - Christopher DawsonWe have become accustomed to take the secular character of modern civilization for granted. We have most of us never known anything else and consequently we are apt to think that this is a natural and normal state of things. Actually of course this state of things is far from being normal. Read more... 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... Read more... The Stages of World Religion - part 1 - Christopher DawsonChristopher Dawson outlines the first three of seven stages in the development of religion: the Primitive, the Neolithic, and Archaic Culture Religion. Read more... |
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