Christopher Dawson
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British historian
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Christopher Dawson's Degrees
- PhD History University of Liverpool
Why Is Christopher Dawson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christopher Henry Dawson was an English Catholic historian, independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and emphasized the necessity for Western culture to be in continuity with Christianity not to stagnate and deteriorate. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century" and was recognized as being able to expound his thought to "Catholic and Protestant, Christian and non-Christian."
Christopher Dawson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Progress and Religion: An Historical Enquiry (1930) (26)
- The Beginnings of Rome (1923) (19)
- The Age of the Gods: A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East (1929) (10)
- The Mongol mission : narratives and letters of the Franciscan missionaries in Mongolia and China in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Translated by a nun of Stanbrook Abbey. (1955) (8)
- Review of Book: The Historic Reality of Christian Culture — A Way to the Renewal of Human Life (1961) (5)
- Russia and america (1960) (5)
- Prevision in Religion (1934) (4)
- The Celtic peoples and Renaissance Europe : a study of the Celtic and Spanish influences on Elizabethan history (1934) (4)
- Progress & religion : an historical enquiry (1937) (3)
- An Historian's Approach to Religion. Based on Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the Years 1952 and 1953 (1957) (3)
- Herr Spengler and the Life of Civilisations: By Christopher Dawson (1922) (2)
- Religion and Primitive Culture (1925) (2)
- The Historic Origins of Liberalism (1954) (2)
- A Scheme of British Culture Periods, and of Their Relation to European Cultural Developments (1924) (2)
- On the Development of Sociology in Relation to the Theory of Progress (1921) (1)
- Religion and culture : Gifford lectures, delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the year 1947 (1948) (1)
- Rome: A Historical Survey (1923) (1)
- Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism.@@@Religion and the Modern State. (1936) (0)
- Mediaeval religion (the Forwood lectures, 1934) and other essays (1934) (0)
- Religion and culture : Gifford lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1947 (1958) (0)
- The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the Study of European Unity@@@The Discovery of Europe (1932) (0)
- Reviews of Books: Die Berliner Romantik, 1800–1814, a Historical Atlas of Modern Europe, Essays on Vocation: Second Series, the Social and Industrial Problem: A Brief Introduction to the Study of Social Economics, Bergson and Education (1923) (0)
- Greek Philosophy before PlatoThe Age of the Gods. A Study of the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East (0)
- Government Publications (1935) (0)
- Progress and Decay in Ancient and Modern Civilisation (1924) (0)
- Religion and the rise of Western culture : Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh, 1948-1949 (1950) (0)
- The Life of Civilisations (1922) (0)
- Civilization and the Faith (1934) (0)
- The Mystery of China (1927) (0)
- Civilisation and Morals: Or, the Ethical Basis of Social Progress (1925) (0)
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