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Christopher Dawson

Dynamics of World History

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In scope and in vision Christopher Dawson's historiography ranks with the work of men like Spengler, Northrop, and Toynbee. Several major themes run through Dawson's work, but perhaps his most unique contribution was his insistence on the importance of religion in shaping and sustaining civilizations.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. For this reason, Dawson concluded that Western society must find a way to revitalize its spiritual life if it is to avoid irreversible decay. Progress, the real religion of modern… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4976-5140-1
  • EAN: 9781497651401
  • Produktnummer: 19291698
  • Verlag: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 450 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

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Christopher Dawson is widely regarded as one of the most important historians of the twentieth century. Commended for his sophisticated approach to history, Dawson focused much of his writing on the important relationship between religion and culture. He is the author of such seminal works as Religion and the Rise of Western Culture (Sheed & Ward, 1950), Religion and Culture (Sheed & Ward, 1948), and the Crisis of Western Education (Sheed & Ward, 1961).

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