{"product_id":"the-judgment-of-the-nations-christopher-dawson-9780813218809","title":"The Judgment of the Nations","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristopher Dawson wrote\u003ci\u003e The Judgment of the Nations\u003c\/i\u003e in 1942, in the midst of the horrors of World War II. He took four years in the writing of it, years, he claimed, \"more disastrous than any that Europe had known since the fourteenth century.\" By his own admission it had cost him greater labor and thought than any other book he had written. It is, perhaps, his most characteristic work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawson argues in compressed form for what he laid out more systematically in other books: his view that the West was at an hour of crisis and was fighting for its life as a civilization. He did not view the disasters of the two World Wars as the cause of that disintegration; they were rather symptoms of a much deeper malaise, that of the loss of the spiritual vision that had created and sustained Western culture through the centuries. He lays out his understanding of what might be necessary for the West to reengage its spiritual and cultural roots and find a new way forward. For Dawson, such a restoration could not be coercive, but needed rather to be based upon a new perception of the inherent cultural creativity of Christianity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Judgment of the Nations\u003c\/i\u003e was widely praised upon publication.\u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e called it \"an appraisement of the contemporary situation by an historical thinker of the first importance,\" and the\u003ci\u003e Irish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e \"a monument, alike of historical and of philosophical erudition.\" It was Dawson's hope in this work to describe the nature of the spiritual struggle Europe was facing, to map out its true lines, and to point the way through an impending and perhaps probable disaster to a renewal of European life, a renewal whose success or failure would have a decisive impact on the entire world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) is recognized as one of the most important Catholic historians of the twentieth century, authoring numerous books, articles, and scholarly monographs. Dawson was lecturer in the History of Culture, University College, Exeter; Gifford lecturer; Charles Chauncey Stillman Chair of Roman Catholic Studies at Harvard University from 1958 to 1962; and editor of the \u003ci\u003eDublin Review. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Dawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813218802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813218809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catholic University of America Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Christopher Dawson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44321224098047,"sku":"9780813218809","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7ad07d8b-16b0-4b3e-ae21-43f2908f4f0c.jpg?v=1696329770","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-judgment-of-the-nations-christopher-dawson-9780813218809","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}