Christopher Dawson Quotes
It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.
Dawson, Christopher. The Historic Reality of Christian Culture. Harper & Brothers, 1960, p. 21.
Alexander had an unusual absence of nationalism or even pride of his Macedonian customs and culture. His adolescent teacher was Aristotle whose broad education made Alexander a great conqueror and ruler of different races, cultures and religions. He turned the world, literally and figuratively, into his country and in order to rule over such a vast area, he had to depend on people of different races, religions, customs, and cultures. The diversity and multiculturalism of his empire with the paucity of racism and discrimination by the conquerors has never been reached again.
The Governor had banished John Bowne, the Quaker from the colony. In general, he was opposed to Quakers, Jews and other “non-Christians.”
She was the first member of European royalty to embrace the Bahai faith. This faith is positive and supportive of all other faiths—an unusual characteristic for a religion. It even speaks well of Islam where literal interpretations of Sharia—Islamic Law—require that all Bahais be put to death. In Iran, they were still murdering Bahais in the 21st century.
The re-conquest had just taken place where the Christians defeated the Islamic troops and the King found himself ruling extensive Muslim dominated areas like Toledo as well as large Christian areas. While atypical for a Christian Catholic King, Alfonso VI went out of his way to avoid a crisis with either religious group. He told the Muslims that they could follow Islamic practices and let it be known by statements like this that he had two religions in his kingdom.
Christopher Henry Dawson FBA was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century". The 1988–1989 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.
