Christopher Dawson Papers

Series III. Harvard Lectures  

Box/Folder

9/8     Notebook (8) -- Dawson's notes on: Harvard Lectures,  Religion and Culture Introduction, The Nature of Christian Culture; I. The First Age of the Church II. The Age of the Christian Empire III. Conversion of the Barbarians IV. The Age of Reform, 1000-1100 V. The Age of Divided Christendom, 1453-1800 The Political Structure of the Baroque World vs. The Triumph of the Enlightenment, 1740-1800 VI. Christianity and Modern Secularist Culture, 1800-1960  (ca1958-1962)

9/9     Notebook (9) -- Dawson's notes on: Harvard Lectures, I. Religion and Culture: The Nature of Christian Culture II. The Foundation of Christian Culture  (II) The Messianic Crisis III. The First Age of the Church, c. 27 AD-323 AD: The Birth of Christian Culture IV The First Age of the Church V. The Second Age of the Church VI Separation of East and West VII The Decline of the Christian Empire VIII. The Third Age of the Church    (ca1953- 1962)

4/41    Syllabus -- Harvard Lectures, Fall 1958

4/42    Syllabus – Proposed Lectures, Spring 1959 

6/23    Importance of study of culture for America (Introduction);  Revelations and History: The tradition of scripture;  Introduction to the study of Catholicism; The tradition of culture, the nature of culture, the nature of religion; Religion and Culture, nd.

1/8     (1) The Biblical Foundations, (2) The Foundation of the Church, and (3) The Gospel and the Kingdom; The Messianic Crisis and the Catastrophe of the Jewish Resistance; Seminar on the First Age of the Church, 1959-1960

1/6     The Catholic Idea of a Universal Spiritual Society; The Idea of the Church, 1961

1/10    The Catholic Idea of a Universal Spiritual Society, 1960

1/19    Catholic Revival in England, 1960                

1/18    Catholic Revival in England and Ireland, 1960

1/22    Catholic Revival in France and the Mennaisian Movement, 1960

1/25    The Catholic Revival in France, 1960

1/21    Catholic Revival in Ireland and America,  1958-1962

1/2     Catholicism and Culture; Roman Catholic Studies, Introduction, 1960

1/23    Catholicism and the Modern World:  Leo XIII, Pius X, and Modernism, 1961

1/15    The Creative Age of Medieval Culture, 1000-1500, 1959-1961

1/14    Christendom and the National State;  Survey of Term's Work, 1959

1/17    Christian Church and the Modern Democratic State, 1958-1962

1/11    The Christian Empire; The Age of the Fathers and the Rise of Byzantine Culture (from Constantine to Justinian 313-565. The Coming of the Kingdom (The Messianic Crisis and the Catastrophe of the Jewish Resistance; The Rise of Western Christendom, nd

1/26    Christianity and Modern Civilization. 1790-1958, 1958

1/1     Christianity and the Development of Western Culture, 1959

1/9     (1) Christianity and the Hellenistic World, (2) The First Age of the Church, and (3) The First Development Theology, Harvard Lecture, 1958-1962

1/12    The Church and the Barbarians, Rise of Formation of Western Christendom, 395-605; The Carolingian Age; The Carolingian Culture, The Formation of Western Christendom; The Rise of Western Christendom, 1959-1960                         

1/3     The Coming of the Kingdom: The Messianic Crisis and the Catastrophe of Jewish Resistance/The Gospel and the Kingdom: The Foundation of the Church, Harvard Lectures 3 and 5,  1959 -1960

2/35    The Cultural Consequences of Christian Disunity, 1960

1/13    Eastern Christendom in the Middle Ages, 1960-1961

4/161  The Foundation of the Church (draft of Harvard Lecture?), nd

1/24    The Intellectual Background of the Religious Revival in England  in the 19th Century, 1958-1962

1/29    Introduction to the Nineteenth Century: The Two Trends of Catholic Revival and the Growth of Revolutionary, 1958-1962 

1/16    Liberalism, Ultramontanism, Pius IX and the Vatican Council, 1960

1/20    The Movement Toward Christian Unity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1960

1/64    Movement Toward Christian Unity in the Nineteenth Century, 1960

1/27    The Movement Toward Christian Unity in the Nineteenth Century; The Movement toward Christian Unity in the 19^t and 20th Centuries, 1959 - 1960

1/7     The Nature of Culture/The Growth of Civilization; The Life of Civilization, Introduction; The Life of Civilization: The Nature of Culture; Church History and The Study of Culture, 1959-1960

1/5     Revelation and History :The Tradition of Scriptures and the History of Israel; Christian Culture and History: The Christian and Jewish Idea of Revelation and its Historical Significance; Faith and Tradition, 1958-1962

1/28    The Revival of Religion in the Nineteenth Century, 1958-1962

1/30    The Revival of Religion in the Nineteenth Century, 1958 - 1962  

1/4     The Six Ages of the Church; or The Six Periods of Christian Culture, 1958 - 1962

1/93    Survey of Term's Work on the development of the Catholic Church; nature of the culture process, Harvard University, 1959

2/71    Study of Catholicism, 1958

1/ 91   Harvard lecture outlines: The Catholic Idea of the Supernatural Order; The Christian View of Man and Society; The Study of Catholicism; The Concept of the Church; The Six Ages of the Church; Christianity and History; Consequences of Divided Christendom, 1958 - 1962.

2/36    The Decline of the Unity of Medieval Christendom; The Dissolution of the unity of Medieval Christendom and the Transformation of European Culture in the 10th Century; The Decline of the Medieval Unity and the Rise of the Renaissance Culture, 1959-1960

2/ 37   The Renaissance: The Catholic Church and Humanist Culture; The Renaissance of Italian Culture in the 15th Century; The Renaissance: Catholicism and Humanist Culture; The Humanist and Missionary Expansion of Christian Culture, 1960-1961   

2/38    The Renaissance; The Renaissance: The Catholic Church and the Humanist Culture, 1962

2/39    Martin Luther and the Call to Revolt;  The Breakup of the Unity of Christendom in the 16th century: the Reformation in Germany,  Revolution of the Princes; Divided Christendom; The Breakup of Medieval Unity: The Reformation in Germany;  Seminar Notes Lecture II: The Causes of the Reformation, 1960-1961

2/40    The Progress of the Reformation in England :Catholicism and Nationalism, 1960-1961

2/41    The Reformation in France and the Development of Calvinism in Western Europe, 1960-1961

2/42    The Council of Trent and the Rise of the Jesuits (the Catholic Revival), 1959-1960

2/ 43   The Formation of the New England Way, The Puritan Reformations and the Formation of the New England Way,  The Puritan Reformation and the Formation of the New England Way, 1961-1962

2/44    The National Divisions of Christendom (Divided Christendom and the National Church), 1958

2/45    The Culture of Divided Christendom, the Catholic Revival and the Baroque Culture, 1960-1961

2/46    (1) The Culture of Divided Christendom, and (2) The Age of Louis XIV and the Formation of Classical French,  1958-1962

2/47    The Secularization of Modern Culture, Secularized Christendom: The Enlightenment and the Beginning of Technological Civilization, The Church and the Revolution, 1958

2/48    The Enlightenment, The Secularization of Modern Culture, The Secularization of Modern Culture and the Age of the Enlightenment, The Secularization of Western Culture: Rationalism and Revolution, The Age of the Enlightenment, 1960-1961   

2/49    The French Revolution: the Situation of Catholicism in the 18th Century, Notes on the French Revolution, 1960-1961

2/50    Epilogue: The Catholic Idea of a Universal Spiritual Society, 1959-1960

1/92    Notes for Harvard Lectures, survey of term's work: tradition in culture and religion; the theology of Christian culture; ecumenical movement; the social (class) structure of Anglo-American religion; the "third alternative",  1958-1962

1/94    Notes on prophetic mystical elements in religion for Harvard Seminar, 1961

6/111 The Study of Catholicism (Harvard Lecture 1, Fall 1959), 1959

6/112 The Growth and Diffusion of Culture (Harvard Lecture III), 1959-1960

6/135 The Study of Catholicism (Harvard Lecture 1), 1958

6/136 Christian Culture in the Age of Divided Christendom: The Renaissance, the Reformation and the Baroque Culture  notes for Harvard Lecture V (?), 1958

6/162 Theology, Harvard University, Summer 1959,: I. The Study of Catholicism. II. The Nature of Culture. III. The Judaeo-Christian Tradition. IV. Comparative Religion. The Doctrine of the Church. Byzantine Culture. (Maryknoll) on missionary action, nd.