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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.

Europe, Christianity, and the Thought of Christopher Dawson
GERALD RUSSELLO
A 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.

Christopher Dawson on Technology and the Demise of Liberalism
RUSSELL HITTINGER
I 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.

How the West Won — but "Western Civ" Lost
RODNEY STARK
It's remarkably unfashionable to study — or even talk about — the West these days.

How the West Really Lost God - chapter 2
MARY EBERSTADT
"How the West Really Lost God" is clear as a bell, beautifully plotted, and the point it makes not only overturns conventional wisdom but strikes far deeper into reality than any rival argument in the field." - Michael Novak

Christianity Alien Presence or Foundation of the West?
CHRISTOPH CARDINAL SCHONBORN
I see the situation of Christianity in Europe to be rather exciting and full of opportunity. A foreign body in Europe and also a root: that is the exciting position of Christianity in secular Europe.

Is Christopher Still a Saint?
FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERS
Whatever happened to St. Christopher? Is he still a saint?

Interstellar: Christopher Nolan's flawed masterpiece
STEPHEN BENEDICT DYSON
At about the midway point of Interstellar, a spacecraft descends into the atmosphere of a pristine white planet.  

The West and the Rest
GEORGE WEIGEL
In his book, Without Roots, Pope Benedict XVI deplored the addiction to historical self-deprecation rampant at the higher altitudes of European cultural and intellectual life: a tendency to see in the history of the West only "the despicable and the destructive."

The Secularism of the West
RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS
We have all heard it said that the war on terrorism pits liberal democracy against religious fanaticism. There is a measure of truth in that. Others say the conflict is between a secular understanding of society and a society defined by religiously based morality. That, I suggest, is both untrue and dangerous.

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