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Religion and the Rise of Western Culture: The Classic Study of Medieval Civilization
Häftad, 1991
267 kr
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Christianity and European Culture
Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson
Av Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello
Häftad, 1998
333 kr
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This collection of Christopher Dawson's works illustrates his approach in defining ""Christian culture"", and its adaptability to non-Western and pluralist societies. It also gives insight on issues ranging from ""new evangelization"" to the ""clash of civilizations"" in the post-Communist world.
Medieval Essays
Häftad, 2002
313 kr
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A comprehensive collection of essays from the Middle Ages, this text ranges from the fateful days of the late Roman Empire to the final destruction of Byzantium, from the rise of Islam to the flowering of western vernacular literature, from missions to China to the caliphs of Egypt, from the …
Making of Europe
An Introduction to the History of European Unity
Häftad, 2002
343 kr
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In this work, Christopher Dawson concludes that the period of the 4th to the 11th centuries, commonly known as the Dark Ages, was not a barren prelude to the creative energy of the mediaeval world. Instead, he argues that it is better described as ""ages of dawn"", for it was in this rich and …
Enquiries Into Religion and Culture
Häftad, 2009
330 kr
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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. In them, he explores the contact between the spiritual life of the individual and the social and economic organization of …
Understanding Europe
Häftad, 2009
274 kr
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In a time of remarkable but selective amnesia in the West reflected perhaps most dramatically in the denial of the Christian roots of Europe in the first drafts of the European constitution, ""Understanding Europe"" is as relevant today as it was on its first appearance in 1952. Christopher Dawson …
Crisis of Western Education
Häftad, 2010
275 kr
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This title presents works of Christopher Dawson. ""The Crisis of Western Education"", originally published in 1961, served as a capstone of Christopher Dawson's thought on the Western educational system. Long out of print, the book has now been updated with a new introduction by Glenn W. Olsen and …
Judgement of the Nations
Häftad, 2011
283 kr
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Christopher Dawson wrote The Judgment of the Nations in 1943, in the midst of the horrors of World War II. He took four years in the writing of it, years, he claimed, “more disastrous than any that Europe had known since the fourteenth century.” By his own admission it had cost him greater labour …
Age of the Gods
A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East
Häftad, 2012
401 kr
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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 synthesised modern scholarship on human cultures in Europe and the East from the Stone Age to the beginnings of the Iron Age. His focus …
Movement of World Revolution
Häftad, 2013
282 kr
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Christopher Dawson was one of the most profound historians of his day, with an acute understanding of the ideas and culture movements behind the making of Western society. The Movement of World Revolution, originally published in 1959, explores many of the themes Dawson considered most important in …
Religion and Culture
Häftad, 2013
283 kr
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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.The book makes two parallel arguments. First, Dawson argues that religion is, and …
Gods of Revolution
Häftad, 2015
283 kr
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In The Gods of Revolution, Christopher Dawson brought to bear, as Glanmor Williams said, “his brilliantly perceptive powers of analysis on the French Revolution. . . . In so doing he reversed the trends of recent historiography which has concentrated primarily on examining the social and economic …
Spirit of the Oxford Movement
Häftad, 2023
275 kr
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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 …
Formation of Christendom
Häftad, 2026
365 kr
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Together with its sequel The Dividing of Christendom, this book was the fruit of the Harvard lectures that Christopher Dawson delivered as the first occupant of the Charles Chauncey Stillman Chair of Roman Catholic Studies from 1958-1962. Here, as in all his works, he sees religion as the dynamic …
Dividing of Christendom
Häftad, 2026
386 kr
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Christopher Dawson, the renowned historian of culture, offered an overarching narrative in two volumes of the rise and fall of Christian unity within Western Civilization in lectures he delivered at Harvard University between 1958 and 1962. Volume 1, The Formation of Christendom, laid out Dawson’s …
Monument to Saint Augustine
Av Martin Cyril D'Arcy, Maurice Blondel m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
479 kr
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Monument to Saint Augustine
Av Martin Cyril D'Arcy, Maurice Blondel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
711 kr
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Christianity and the New Age
Inbunden, 2021
357 kr
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First published in 1931, Christianity and the New Age offered a hard and inspired look at a world being torn apart by fascisms, communisms, materialisms, and the Great Depression. Since the Renaissance, Dawson feared, western culture and society had embraced an arrogant form of humanism, one that …
Monument to Saint Augustine
Essays on Some Aspects of His Thought Written in Commemoration of His 15th Centenary
Av Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
814 kr
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With a new afterword by Jacob Holsinger Sherman!"e;A Monument to Saint Augustine, now happily reprinted by Wipf and Stock, gathers many diverse strands of the early twentieth century Catholic thought within its pages: the creative transformation of neo-scholasticism through a kind of …
Church & the Rise and Fall of Modernity
Dawson's Lost Essays
Av Christopher Dawson, Mikael Thompson de Grisvaldi
Häftad, 2025
242 kr
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Hacia la comprensión de Europa
E-bok, 2020
113 kr
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En tiempos de fuertes rechazos y dudas sobre la validez del proyecto europeo y, más aún, de afirmación generalizada de la decadencia de Occidente, Hacia la comprensión de Europa resulta un texto tan iluminador como cuando se publicó por vez primera en 1952, pues permite a los ciudadanos europeos …
Hacia la comprensión de Europa
E-bok, 2020
113 kr
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En tiempos de fuertes rechazos y dudas sobre la validez del proyecto europeo y, más aún, de afirmación generalizada de la decadencia de Occidente, Hacia la comprensión de Europa resulta un texto tan iluminador como cuando se publicó por vez primera en 1952, pues permite a los ciudadanos europeos …
Mission to Asia
Häftad, 1980
367 kr
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The narratives by John of Plano Carpini and William of Rubruck of their journeys to Mongolia in the middle of the thirteenth century differ from the majority of works in this series. The authors were not canonized saints or beati, and their travels were not missionary journeys in the strict sense, …
