“The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It begins the moment men feel that religion is irrelevant to the common way of life and… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the belief in progress which was so strong during the nineteenth century, that men tend to go too far in the opposite direction: in fact the modern world is experiencing the same kind of danger which was so fatal… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share
“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Today everybody admits that something is wrong with the world, and the critics of Christianity are the very people who feel this most. The most violent attacks on religion come from those who are most anxious to change the world, and they attack Christianity because they think that it is an obstructive force that stands in the way of a… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share
“...education has always meant the initiation of the young into the social and spiritual inheritance of the community: in other words, education has meant… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“If we are to make the ordinary man aware of the spiritual uity out of which asll the separate activities of our civilization have arisen, it is necessary in the first place to look at Western civilization as a whole and to treat it wit the same objective appreciation and respect which the humanists of the past devoted to the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share
“Democracy bases its appeal on the sacredness of the People – the consecration of Folk; socialism on the sacredness of Labor – the consecration… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Whatever may be the cause of this crisis, it is certain that it is a spiritual one, since it represents the failure of civilized man to control the forces that he has created. It is due above all to the loss of common purpose in Western culture and the lack of a common intelligence to guide the new forces that… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share
“The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state and the empire were inseparably connected at every turn, brought the Christians into inevitable conflict with the government and with public opinion. To the man in the street, the Christian was an anti-social atheist who would take no… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share
“Classical education was only half the old system of European education--below it and above it there was the religious education that was common to the whole people, and the higher theological education that was peculiar to the clergy, who provided the majority of the teachers in both the other departments of education. Now the lowest level of this structure, which… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share
“...the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
