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15 books about Dawson, Christopher
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The Age of the Gods
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2012
Library of Congress CB301.D3 2012 | Dewey Decimal 930.1
When first published in 1928, The Age of the Gods was hailed as the best short account of what is known of pre-historic man and culture. In it, Christopher Dawson synthesized modern scholarship on human cultures in Europe and the East from the Stone Age to the beginnings of the Iron Age.
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Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 1998
Library of Congress BR735.D38 1998 | Dewey Decimal 261.094
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of Dawson's thinking on questions that remain of contemporary importance
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Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War
Joseph T. Stuart
Catholic University of America Press, 2022
Library of Congress CB18.D38 | Dewey Decimal 907.2024
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.
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The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2010
Library of Congress LC1011.D27 2010 | Dewey Decimal 370.112
The Crisis of Western Education, originally published in 1961, served as a capstone of Christopher Dawson's thought on the Western educational system.
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Dynamics Of World History
Christopher Dawson
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002
Library of Congress D16.8.D3 2002 | Dewey Decimal 901
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Enquiries into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2009
Library of Congress BL55.D27 2009
The essays presented in this volume are among the most wide-ranging, intellectually rich, and diverse of Christopher Dawson's reflections on the relations of faith and culture
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The Gods of Revolution
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2015
Library of Congress DC158.2.D3 2015 | Dewey Decimal 944.04
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The Judgment of the Nations
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2011
Library of Congress BR115.P7D35 2011 | Dewey Decimal 261.7
Christopher Dawson wrote The Judgment of the Nations in 1942, in the midst of the horrors of World War II.
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Medieval Essays (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2002
Library of Congress BR253.D357 2002 | Dewey Decimal 270.3
Medieval Essays is the mature reflection of one of the most gifted cultural historians of the twentieth century.
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The Movement of World Revolution
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2013
Library of Congress BR115.H5D39 2013 | Dewey Decimal 909.08
The Movement of World Revolution, originally published in 1959, explores many of the themes Dawson considered most important in his lifetime: the religious foundation of human culture, the central importance of education for the recovery of Christian humanism, the myth of progress, and the dangers of nationalism and secular ideologies.
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Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2001
Library of Congress BL55.D3 2001 | Dewey Decimal 200
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.
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Religion and Culture
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2013
Library of Congress BL55.D32 2013 | Dewey Decimal 306.6
Religion and Culture was first presented by historian Christopher Dawson as part of the prestigious Gifford Lecture series in 1947. It sets out the thesis for which he became famous: religion is the key of history
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The Spirit of the Oxford Movement
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2022
“This is the book we have been waiting for… a permanent enrichment of our understanding of the Oxford Movement” proclaimed The Downside Review upon the publication of Christopher Dawson’s masterwork in 1933, exactly 100 years after John Keble’s sermon "National Apostasy" stirred a nation. Dawson himself regarded the book as one of his two greatest intellectual accomplishments.
Dawson and John Henry Newman were Oxonians and both were converts to Catholicism; both stood against progressive and liberal movements within society. In both ideologies, Dawson saw a pathway that had once led to the French Revolution. Newman, for Dawson, was a kindred spirit.
In The Spirit of the Oxford Movement, Dawson goes beyond a mere retelling of the events of 1833 - 1845. He shows us the prime movers who sought a deeper understanding of the Anglican tradition: the quixotic Hurrell Froude, for instance, who "had none of the English genius for compromise or the Anglican faculty of shutting the eyes to unpleasant facts." It was Froude who brought Newman and Keble together and who helped them understand each other. In many ways, Dawson sees these three as the true embodiment of the Tractarian ethos.
Dawson probes deeply, though, to provide a richer, clearer understanding of the intellectual underpinnings of the Oxford Movement, revealing its spiritual raison d’être. We meet a group of gifted like-minded thinkers, albeit with sharp disagreements, who mock outsiders and each other, who pepper their letters with Latin, and forever urge each other on. Newman came to believe, as did Dawson, that the only intellectually coherent bastion against secular culture was religion, and the “on” to which they were urged was the Catholic church. The Spirit of the Oxford Movement provides insights into why Newman, and Dawson, came to this understanding.
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The third spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones
Adam Schwartz
Catholic University of America Press, 2005
Library of Congress BX4668.A1S39 2005 | Dewey Decimal 248.242092241
This book is the first detailed examination of these four authors as part of a Roman Catholic, counter-modern community of discourse. It is informed by extensive research in the writers' works, scholarship on them, and their personal papers.
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Understanding Europe (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
Christopher Dawson
Catholic University of America Press, 2009
Library of Congress CB245.D37 2009 | Dewey Decimal 940.1
In Understanding Europe, Dawson expresses a desire for Europe to rediscover and renew its foundational Christian sources in order to recover a deeper sense of integrity.
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