The essays 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. He explores the contact between the spiritual life of the individual and the social and economic organisation of modern culture.

Presented here with a new introduction by Dermot Quinn, The Age ofthe Gods continues the popular Works of Christopher Dawson series.Among other topics, the book sketches the glacial age and the beginningsof human life, the Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures and the riseof the peasant culture in Europe, the development of Sumerian culture, the archaic culture of Egypt, the megalithic culture in Western Europe, the age of empire in the Near East, the Bronze Age in Central Europe, theformation of the Indo-European peoples, the Mycenaean culture ofGreece, and the beginnings of the Iron Age in...

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. Dawsons concern was not so much a solution to the political, social, or economic problems...