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Christopher Dawson
English Catholic historian and independent scholar
For other people with the same name, see Chris Dawson (disambiguation).
Christopher Henry DawsonFBA (12 October 1889 – 25 May 1970) was an EnglishCatholic 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"[1] and was recognized as being able to expound his thought to "Catholic and Protestant, Christian and non-Christian."[2]
The 1988–1989 academic year at the College of Europe was named in Dawson's honour. [citation needed]
Life
Christopher Henry Dawson was born of an Anglo-Catholic family in the Bevan ancestral home of Hay Castle, during the waning years of the Victorian era, and spent most of his childhood among the ruins of the Yorkshire countryside. His parents were Captain Henry P. Dawson and Mary Louisa, t
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Christopher Dawson
"Offers the best overview (as well as depth) of Dawson that I’ve seen. The writing, the research, and the analysis are top notch. I was especially taken with Stuart’s command of the resources in and around Dawson. He has solved many puzzles, I think, regarding Dawson’s life and intellectual biography."
~Brad Birzer, author of Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson
"Joseph Stuart’s thoroughly researched and brightly written intellectual biography combines the essential details of Dawson’s life with analysis of the evolution of his thought. This is a wonderful and fresh account of an important British intellectual who is often pigeonholed as just another Catholic ideologue. He was much more than that, as Stuart shows so well."
~Michael Burleigh, London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
"The book is extremely wide ranging so that, as well as being a book about Dawson, it serves as a cultural history of the twentieth century. No one else has so far produced such a c
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A Historian and His World: A Life of Christopher Dawson
As a historian of ideas, Christopher Dawson was one of the most distinguished Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a scholar of immense erudition, a writer of great style and fluency, and the first Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic studies at Harvard. It is in the field of the history of ideas that he achieved his most lasting influence. This biography by Christina Scott, Dawson's daughter, is a sensitive portrait of a complex and fascinating scholar.
The author's first-hand knowledge and her access to unpublished family memoirs has enabled her to paint a convincing picture of the basic personal security provided by Dawson's private life, his friendships, and his deep Christian faith-a personal security all too often required as a bulwark against the vicissitudes and disappointments of his public life. Dawson's Catholicism proved a problem to advancement in his academic career; and when public recognition of his true stature finally came, in the form of the Stillman Chair, it came late in life an
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