Dawson, “Ploughing a Lone Furrow,” 1960
A really nice autobiographical piece Dawson wrote. An examination of his life as a non-academic scholar. cd ploughing 1960
A really nice autobiographical piece Dawson wrote. An examination of his life as a non-academic scholar. cd ploughing 1960
From a periodical I’d never heard of before my academic work on Christopher Dawson. Good interview, however. interview with Christopher Dawson 1959
cd undistracted philo 1961
One of Dawson’s little known and little-remembered pieces and one of his best. TRADITION AND INHERITANCE was an attempt to write an autobiography from the standpoint of family rather than individual. A beautiful idea, but it proved too… Read More
third interview with CD 1961
“They’ve got their history wrong. The best fruits came precisely from Christian humanism. When Christianity and humanism touch, the best things emerge.” “The great Christian humanists, men like St. Thomas More, Vives, Erasmus, Castellion and others, were ever… Read More
Interesting United Nations book exploring various western religions. Published in 1964. Interviews with Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson, and Christopher Dawson. interviews with maritain gilson dawson
American Review of Dawson medieval religion
cd 1921 the land
CD 1927 Christianity and the Idea of Progress
One of Dawson’s most controversial pieces, the three-part analysis of economics and Catholic theology. It should be remembered that Dawson drastically changed his ideas about the role of government as he witnessed the horrors of Nationalism, communism, fascism,… Read More
CD 1925 Religion and the Life of Civilization