Publisher's Synopsis
A Christian Notion of History
Published in November 2024 in USA by
TATAY JOBO ELIZES, Self-Publisher,
under the permission and authorization of
Dr. Luisesteban A. Latorre, PH.D.,
author and owner of the copyright to this book.
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Table of Contents
Who is Christopher Dawson? -- p.5 CHAPTER TWO
Dawson is a "Point of View" -- p.14 CHAPTER THREE
St. Augustine's "Philosophy of History"
as Interpreted by -- p.19 CHAPTER FOUR
The Two Sources of Augustine's DE CIVITATE DEI -- p.23 CHAPTER FIVE
Fundamental Augustinian Concepts
Contained in Dawson -- p.29 CHAPTER SIX
History and the Concept of
CHRISTENDOM -- p.35 CHAPTER SEVEN
"Christendom" vs "Communism" -- p.41 CHAPTER EIGHT
History and Progress: Liberalism's Interpretation of History -- p.50 CHAPTER NINE
The MARXIST Interpretation of
History -- p.77 CHAPTER TEN
CONCLUSION: Return to Christendom or Total Secularization in 5 Points -- p.99 .....
About the Author
--- p104
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CHAPTER ONE Who is Christopher Dawson? PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER DAWSON
(1889-1970). Who is he? TWO Testimonies: John J. MULLOY's TESTIMONY: On 25 May 1970, Professor Christopher Dawson died. Age - 80. Religion - Roman Catholic. Nationality - English. Occupation - Professor and writer of history; a historian and a philosopher.
Several months later, on Septembr 1970, in honor of the late Professor Dawson, a small book of thirty-two page was published. It carried an introduction by JOHN J. MULLOY (editor of Dawson's book Dynamics of World History, London 1957).
The title of that small book or pamphlet of 32 pages is "TRADITION AND INHERITANCE -- Reflections on the Formative Years" by Christopher Dawson (St. Paul, Minnesota 1970)
J.J. Mulloy attests that "these articles are the only autobiographical memoirs Christopher Dawson has written." And in the Introduction of this small book, Mulloy points out two salient points in the formative years of Dawson:
First, "the boy's (Dawson) response to the different aspects of the Yorkshire countryside and the moods they expressed for him, resembling to some degree the INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANDSCAPE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FEELING given in Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter; and
Second, "the element of the LEGENDARY AND THE HEROIC IN LITERATURE which can become so important a part of the child's inner life."
Although these memories of early youth ad childhood might seem at first irrelevant to a person's thought on history, J.J.Mulloy points out the significance these elements play, specially in the case of historians.
Making reference to Jacques Maritain's On the Philosophy of History, Mulloy says: "It is always of interest to see what particular influences have served to form the mind of the great thinker or scholar; and this is even more valuable where the thinker deals with the materials of history. For as Maritain points out in distinguishing the philosopher from the historian, the historian is especially concerned with the evaluation of individual facts and events, in which the element of IMAGINATION AND ARTISTIC SENSITIVITY is so important." MORE INSIDE
