The essays presented in this volume are among the most
wide-ranging, intellectually rich, and diverse of Christopher
Dawson's reflections on the relations of faith and culture. In
them, he explores the contact between the spiritual life of the
individual and the social and economic organization of modern
culture. His focus ranges from the passing of industrialism to the
Catholic understanding of the human person, to Islamic mysticism,
to a Christian account of sexuality.Dawson argues that modern
Western culture is unique in its tendency to ignore its spiritual
roots and its once close contact with nature and tradition, and to
substitute for them an impersonal economic and materialist
organization of mass society. In these essays, he warns against the
increasingly secular preoccupations of modern sociological accounts
of European culture and insists that they require the supplement
and corrective of theology and philosophy. But he is equally
insistent on the dangers of a false spiritualism that ignores
emerging sociological insights.Widely praised as one of the most
important Catholic historians of the twentieth century, Christopher
Dawson, in all of his writings, masterfully brings various
disciplinary perspectives and historical sources into a complex
unity of expression and applies them to concrete conditions of
modern society. ""Enquiries into Religion and Culture"" includes an
introduction by Robert Royal.
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