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The Judgement of the Nations (Paperback)
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The Judgement of the Nations (Paperback)
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Christopher Dawson wrote The Judgment of the Nations in 1943, in
the midst of the horrors of World War II. He took four years in the
writing of it, years, he claimed, "more disastrous than any that
Europe had known since the fourteenth century." By his own
admission it had cost him greater labour and thought than any other
book he had written. It is, perhaps, his most characteristic work.
Dawson argues in compressed form for what he laid out more
systematically in other books: his view that the West was at an
hour of crisis and was fighting for its life as a civilisation. He
did not view the disasters of the two World Wars as the cause of
that disintegration; they were rather symptoms of a much deeper
malaise, that of the loss of the spiritual vision that had created
and sustained Western culture through the centuries. He lays out
his understanding of what might be necessary for the West to
reengage its spiritual and cultural roots and find a new way
forward. For Dawson, such a restoration could not be coercive, but
needed rather to be based upon a new perception of the inherent
cultural creativity of Christianity. The Judgment of the Nations
was widely praised upon publication. The Guardian called it "an
appraisement of the contemporary situation by an historical thinker
of the first importance," and the Irish Independent "a monument,
alike of historical and of philosophical erudition." It was
Dawson's hope in this work to describe the nature of the spiritual
struggle Europe was facing, to map out its true lines, and to point
the way through an impending and perhaps probable disaster to a
renewal of European life, a renewal whose success or failure would
have a decisive impact on the entire world.
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