DYNAMICS OF WORLD HISTORY
Essays by Christopher Dawson. 512 pg. PB
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.
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.
