Tag: Christopher Dawson
Dumping Western civilisation: the difference Christianity makes
When distinguishing between one’s contemporary culture and those that are foreign and in the past the English scholar and Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argues...
Kevin Donnelly: The Church of Marx
Christopher Dawson’s lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh (1948-1949) are published in Religion and the Rise of Western Culture. In the Introduction Dawson refers to “new political ideologies and ideological theories of history” impacting on how history, especially the history of Western civilisation, is defined and interpreted.
