Religion and the Rise of Western Culture

Dawson, Christopher Henry

ISBN 10: 0385421109 / ISBN 13: 9780385421102

Published by PRH Christian Publishing, 1991

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Synopsis:

With the magisterial sweep of Toynbee, to whom he is often compared, Dawson tells here the tale of medieval Christendom. From the brave travels of sixth-century Irish monks to the grand synthesis of Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century, Dawson brilliantly shows how vast spiritual movements arose from tiny origins and changed the face of medieval Europe from one century to the next. The legacy of those years of ferment remains with us in the great cathedrals, Gregorian chant, and the works of Giotto and Dante. Even more, though, for Dawson these centuries charged the soul of the West with a spiritual concern -- a concern that he insists "can never be entirely undone except by the total negation or destruction of Western man himself."

About the Author: Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was one of the century's great historians. The Saturday Review of Literature called him "unequaled as an historian of culture. Unless we read him, we are uninformed."

Bibliographic Details

Title: Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
Publisher: PRH Christian Publishing
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good