Books: "The Annotated Quotable Dawson" & "Saints" by Christopher Dawson

Christopher Dawson: 

Quotable & Admirer of the Saints

by Winston Elliott III

Our friends at Justin Press have recently published two wonderful books especially appealing to those of us who share their admiration of the brilliant English historian Christopher Dawson.

The Annotated Quotable Dawson

Christopher Dawson, the greatest Catholic historian of the twentieth century, remains the final authority on the relation between religion and culture and is one of the most original thinkers of the modern era.

The Annotated Quotable Dawson is a gateway to his work, offering the reader a glimpse of the astonishing breadth and depth of his learning and wisdom. Dawson’s comments on a wide range of subjects confirm Frank Sheed’s opinion that while Dawson had not read everything, there was nothing it was safe to assume he had not read.

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Christopher Dawson’s Saints

Christopher Dawson’s Saints gathers together his scattered writings on saints and their formative role in history and offers a glimpse of history’s “mysterious and inexplicable element due not only to the influence of chance or the initiative of the individual genius, but also to the creative power of spiritual forces.”

There are few, even among Catholics, who realize the importance of the lives of the saints for the history of Western civilization. Nowhere else do we find such a rich tradition of authentic biographical material, which throws light on almost every aspect of life and thought for a period of nineteen hundred years. The lives of the saints have created the pattern of Christian culture through the centuries. They have been the archetypes of Christian experience through which successive generations have learnt the following of Christ according to the forms of their own age and culture.~Christopher Dawson

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