The Movement Towards Christian Unity in the Nineteenth Century

Noted historian and author Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) campaigned for an integrated study of Christian philosophy, history, literature, and art in the same way as literae humaniores had studied every aspect of classical culture. Only this, he believed, could overcome the schism between religion and culture in the West. Dawson's never-before-published 1960 talk, The Movement Towards Christian Unity in the Nineteenth Century, explores the rebirth of English Catholicism and how it sought to heal the religious divisions created by misunderstanding and centuries of intolerance. Christopher Dawson's 1960 Wimmer Lecture still has relevance today in a world split by discord, religious division, and schism within Christianity.