Christopher Dawson was one of the most profound historians of his
day, with an acute understanding of the ideas and culture movements
behind the making of Western society. The Movement of World
Revolution, originally published in 1959, explores many of the
themes Dawson considered most important in his lifetime: the
religious foundation of human culture, the central importance of
education for the recovery of Christian humanism, the myth of
progress, and the dangers of nationalism and secular ideologies.
Dawson's concern was not so much a solution to the political,
social, or economic problems of his day, but rather an
understanding of the present as it had evolved from the past as
well as the charting of a path into the future. In this work,
Dawson argued that the modern period was "not a metaphysical age,
and in the East no less than in the West men are more interested in
subsistence and coexistence than in essence and existence." Dawson
believed a reduction of culture to material and technological
preoccupations would ultimately end in an impoverishment of life.
His solution was a return to a renewed Christendom, one not marked
by an alliance with secular powers but rather arising out of an
organic, spiritual foundation. The Movement of World Revolution is
remarkably prophetic in anticipating many of the contemporary
struggles about the role of religion in the modern state.
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