Christopher Dawson

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Christopher Dawson

Nationality: English

Occupation: Writer

Biography: Christopher Henry Dawson was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Christopher H. Dawson has been called the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century. The 1988 1989 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.

“American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.”

- Christopher Dawson

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“And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.”

- Christopher Dawson

Source/Notes: Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson) (1998 edition), CUA Press - ISBN: 9780813209142
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“As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.”

- Christopher Dawson

Source/Notes: The Modern Dilemma: The Problem of European Unity (1932 edition)
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“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”

- Christopher Dawson

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“But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.”

- Christopher Dawson

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“Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.”

- Christopher Dawson

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“Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.”

- Christopher Dawson

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“For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.”

- Christopher Dawson

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“Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.”

- Christopher Dawson

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“If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.”

- Christopher Dawson

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“It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.”

- Christopher Dawson

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“It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.”

- Christopher Dawson

Source/Notes: Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson) (1998 edition), CUA Press - ISBN: 9780813209142
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“It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.”

- Christopher Dawson

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“Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.”

- Christopher Dawson

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