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Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813218182
Medieval Essays is the mature reflection of one of the most gifted cultural historians of the twentieth century.
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0897601769
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813218199
Progress and Religion was perhaps the most influential of all Christopher Dawson's books, establishing him as an interpreter of history and a historian of ideas.
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813218809
Christopher Dawson wrote The Judgment of the Nations in 1942, in the midst of the horrors of World War II.
Author : Joseph T. Stuart
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813234571
The English historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was the first Catholic Studies professor at Harvard University and has been described as one of the foremost Catholic thinkers of modern times. His focus on culture prefigured its importance in Catholicism since Vatican Council II and in the rise of mainstream cultural history in the late twentieth century. How did Dawson think about culture and why does it matter? Joseph T. Stuart argues that through Dawson’s study of world cultures, he acquired a “cultural mind” by which he attempted to integrate knowledge according to four implicit rules: intellectual architecture, boundary thinking, intellectual asceticism, and intellectual bridges. Dawson’s multilayered approach to culture, instantiating John Henry Newman’s philosophical habit of mind, is key to his work and its relevance. By it, he responded to the cultural fragmentation he sensed after the Great War (1914-1918). Stuart supports these claims by demonstrating how Dawson formed his cultural mind practicing an interdisciplinary science of culture involving anthropology, sociology, history, and comparative religion. Stuart shows how Dawson applied his cultural thinking to problems in politics and education. This book establishes how Dawson’s simple definition of culture as a “common way of life” reconciles intellectualist and behavioral approaches to culture. In addition, Dawson’s cultural mind provides a synthesis helpful for recognizing the importance of Christian culture in education. It demonstrates principles which construct a more meaningful cultural history. Anyone interested in the idea of culture, the connection of religion to the social sciences, Catholic Studies, or Dawson studies will find this book an engaging and insightful intellectual history.
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:489131039
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0813210836
Christopher Dawson concludes that the period of the fourth to the eleventh centuries, commonly known as the Dark Ages, is not a barren prelude to the creative energy of the medieval world. Instead, he argues that it is better described as "ages of dawn" for it is in this rich and confused period that the complex and creative interaction of the Roman empire, the Christian Church, the classical tradition, and barbarous societies provided the foundation for a vital, unified European culture. In an age of fragmentation and the emergence of new nationalist forces, Dawson argued that if "our civilization is to survive, it is essential that it should develop a common European consciousness and sense of historic and organic unity." But he was clear that this unity required sources deeper and more complex than the political and economic movements on which so many had come to depend, and he insisted, prophetically, that Europe would need to recover its Christian roots if it was to survive. In a time of cultural and political ambiguity, The making of Europe is an indispensable work for understanding not only the rich sources but also the contemporary implications of the very idea of Europe.
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497651401
In scope and in vision Christopher Dawson’s historiography ranks with the work of men like Spengler, Northrop, and Toynbee. Several major themes run through Dawson’s work, but perhaps his most unique contribution was his insistence on the importance of religion in shaping and sustaining civilizations. Religion, Dawson believed, is the great creative force in any culture, and the loss of a society’s historic religion therefore portends a process of social dissolution. For this reason, Dawson concluded that Western society must find a way to revitalize its spiritual life if it is to avoid irreversible decay. Progress, the real religion of modernity, is insufficient to sustain cultural health. And an ahistorical, secularized Christianity is an oxymoron, a pseudo-religion only nominally related to the historic religion of the West. Dawson maintained that the hope of the present age lay in the reconciliation of the religious tradition of Christianity with the intellectual tradition of humanism and the new knowledge about man and nature provided by modern science. Dynamics of World History shows that though such a task may be difficult, it is not impossible.
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781586172381
Originally published: New York: Sheed & Ward, 1965.
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813216836
*A new edition of Christopher Dawsons classic work on Christian higher education*
Author : Christina Scott
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1412816092
As a historian of ideas, Christopher Dawson was one of the most distinguished Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a scholar of immense erudition, a writer of great style and fluency, and the first Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic studies at Harvard. It is in the field of the history of ideas that he achieved his most lasting influence. This biography by Christina Scott, Dawson's daughter, is a sensitive portrait of a complex and fascinating scholar. The author's first-hand knowledge and her access to unpublished family memoirs has enabled her to paint a convincing picture of the basic personal security provided by Dawson's private life, his friendships, and his deep Christian faith-a personal security all too often required as a bulwark against the vicissitudes and disappointments of his public life. Dawson's Catholicism proved a problem to advancement in his academic career; and when public recognition of his true stature finally came, in the form of the Stillman Chair, it came late in life and in a country other than his own. 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 students of modern Catholic thought. This is the first publication of the Dawson biography in the United States. It is graced by a postscript written by Christopher Dawson reflecting upon the meaning of his work.
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781586172398
The renowned historian Christopher Dawson devoted his long and brilliant career to precisely the kind of historical research of which theologians and churchmen stand in great need, particularly if they are to meet the authentic demands of the ecumenical e
Author : Christopher 1889-1970 Dawson
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014413028
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813209142
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of Dawson's thinking on questions that remain of contemporary importance
Author : Cristopher Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:917751982
