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Dynamics of World History
Assembled by John Mulloy with Dawson's cooperation, this book collects Dawson's essential essays, providing the reader with an illuminating introduction to the sweep of his thought and insistence on the importance of religion in shaping and sustaining civilization. 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. He maintained that the hope of the present age lay in the difficult"but not impossible"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.... Buy Now
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The Formation of Christendom
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 this ecumenical era. Dawson's book traces the formation of Christian culture from its roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition through the rise and the decline of medieval Christendom. Here, as in all his works, he sees religion as the dynamic element of culture. He shares with Arnold Toynbee the ideal of a universal spiritual society as the goal of history; but whereas Dr. Toynbee sees this as achievable by a consensus of the great world religions, East and West, Dawson sees it as coming from the working ou... ... Read More
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