It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
