Christian Freedom

Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) is one of the greatest of Catholic cultural historians, having written definitive works on the historical rise a European culture. Receiving his M.A. at Trinity College, Oxford, he later did postgraduate work in history and sociology. He was received into the Church in 1914. Among his works are The Making of Europe and Religion and the Rise of Western Culture. In the present essay he considers the nature of Christian freedom as compared with the nearly total absence of human freedom in a pagan world. [For more of these Catholic essays, see the Table of Contents.]

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