Sanctifying the World English historian and Christian humanist Christopher Dawson stood at the very center of the Catholic literary and intellectual revival in the four decades preceding Vatican II. One can find his influence throughout the twentieth-century Catholic Right. Poet and social critic T. S. Eliot considered him the foremost thinker of his generation, and the founder of American conservatism, Russell Kirk, wrote that he had been saturated in Dawsonian historical studies [and] my own Hardcover, ISBN 9780931888861
Publisher: Christendom Press Books, United States, 2007
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English historian and Christian humanist Christopher Dawson stood at the very center of the Catholic literary and intellectual revival in the four decades preceding Vatican II. One can find his influence throughout the twentieth-century Catholic Right. Poet and social critic T. S. Eliot considered him the foremost thinker of his generation, and the founder of American conservatism, Russell Kirk, wrote that he had been saturated in Dawsonian historical…books reflect Dawsons concepts.

Dawsons reputation declined dramatically during the cultural shifts accompanying Vatican II, and few remembered the English Catholic in the final decades of the twentieth century. A revival of interest of Dawson and his body of work increased dramatically in the last years of John Paul IIs and the beginning of Benedicts pontificates. This book offers the first study of Dawsons life and thought as a whole. It is especially poignant as a post9/11 reexamination of the meaning of Western