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Not so ancient scramble around and it also pending European Union Constitutional Treaty new baby a bone of contention was, if you remember, the question of whether Christianity in this document, we can mention as one of the cornerstones of civilization and culture. Well, was not mentioned. I have to say about Christianity in this farce of Brussels just had to laugh - it is not only seen in the past two thousand years. But some good, perhaps, but I wanted to ask: "How can it be that throughout the secular, liberal democratic society for which present themselves as Europeans, debate continues on as if almost non-existent problem?". This question can be answered in different ways. One of the most convincing answers, and I think in 1948-49th was provided by British historian Christopher Dawson (Dawson) in his Gifford lectures [i] series Religion and Western Culture baking. In my possession a lecture summary 1991. Edition of Milwaukee (United States) Archbishop Remberts G. Dawson Vīklends this work a toll on a classic. It is not just a characteristic of the Preface, laudatory rhetoric. Christopher Dawson (1889 - 1970) to be regarded as the most outstanding 20th-century new baby Catholic historians of the English new baby language "complex". Thomas Eliot Stērnzs 1948th year of essays Notes in an attempt to find a definition of culture is recognized in the introduction [ii] that the making of this essay to him, among other things, to feel indebted to Christopher Dawson. Clive Lewis Steipls, just received from the author's lecture First edition, the letter immediately to Dawson writes: "Dear Dawson, thank you very much for your Gifford lectures /.. / .Ķēros Reading at the same time and the desire to read during lunch, nošķiežot book with dressing depriving it of particles of freshness. Well I've read the first time and I must say that this is exactly new baby what I wanted to read / .. / "[iii] Of course, the last half-century history more than research not stood on the site and, for example, one of the Sabres ī he sees it the best-known U.S. Catholic theologians George Weigel, praising Dawson notes, however, that recent research is much deeper and more relevant [iv]. In reading, for example, new baby the excellent monograph by Peter Brown of Western Christianity Creation of [v], one can only agree with Weigel - Brown used a range of sources and therefore the possible conclusions Dawson and his contemporaries not dream not show. Brown both have their own indeve - retroactive he accuses Dawson Catholic view, the most politically correct theirs izplūdinādams and skis. It is as if Dawson openly new baby Catholic views would be worse than Brown nezinkādo! B et all have is not about professional historians dispute. Much skumīgāka contemporary evidence can be found elsewhere - the Latvian narrow circles of the well-known liberal English historian Norman Davies once become a bestseller in European history, new baby Volume [vi] person index. There will not find no reference to Dawson, neither Brown nor other major Christian European origins researchers. Live in strange times: chatting together about fantasy new baby hidden in the mist of the future common new baby Europe, which will encourage rarely openly admit that I want to know something about everything and everywhere present, half a millennium-long common mental Europe.
Past lecture series as far as he could abstained from speaking about Christian culture. Not because the subject is out of Gifford lectures, but, because we all have this or that belong to the Christian culture. Thus, this culture we can not explore it as we are doing with the high cultures of antiquity, of which we can only look through the thin, partly impenetrable archaeological evidence. Nor, as is the case with non-European cultures in the world, what we have to understand from the outside and from a distance. new baby That said, the quality of the distinction of knowledge, which can almost be compared to the difference between the knowledge new baby of the astronomer and geographer other planets knowledge about the earth we live on. And it's not just because studying Western culture, we have an infinitely wider range of materials. Our expertise is also much more intimate and iekšupvērstākas. Western culture has always been the air we breathe, and life is lived. new baby It's our own and our ancestors' way of life. We know not only the documents and monuments, but also from personal experience.
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