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Thomism => Philosophy => Topic started by: ptlopes on January 31, 2022, 01:43:17 AM

Title: Christopher Dawson
Post by: ptlopes on January 31, 2022, 01:43:17 AM
Hi, everyone

What do you think of the English historian Christopher Dawson?

I know he wasn't exactly a Thomist but did he wrote from the perspective of the Catholic orthodoxy and the Church's perennial philosophy?

I heard he was an "ecumenist" and that he was sometimes sympathetic to humanism, for example. Was his ecumenism contrary to pre-Vatican II Church doctrine?

Thank you!
Pedro
Title: Re: Christopher Dawson
Post by: Geremia on January 31, 2022, 02:14:44 AM

QuoteChristopher Dawson
Dawson, Christopher 1889-1970 (https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80034344/)? I'm not familiar with him.
Title: Re: Christopher Dawson
Post by: ptlopes on January 31, 2022, 05:11:59 AM
Quote from: Geremia on January 31, 2022, 02:14:44 AM
QuoteChristopher Dawson
Dawson, Christopher 1889-1970 (https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80034344/)? I'm not familiar with him.


Geremia, thank you for your answer! That's him!
Title: Re: Christopher Dawson
Post by: Kephapaulos on March 07, 2022, 06:10:44 AM
Timothy Flanders of The Meaning of Catholic would recommend Christopher Dawson's writing as a source of history.