originally published 3/23/2018
Historian Glenn W. Olsen, author of Supper at Emmaus: Great Themes in Western Culture and Intellectual History (Catholic University of America Press, 2016), talks about Christopher Dawson’s approach to cultural history. Dawson, one of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century, was an independent scholar who influenced such figures as T. S. Eliot and Russell Kirk. Known for his insistence on maintaining the religious, or cultus, component of cultural development, Dawson was often suspicious of “successionist” historical accounts of the West, which, in Olsen’s words, tend to “obscure the Christian influence of culture.”
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