Quotations: Christopher Dawson

     "But, it will be asked, is not the idea of a return to Christian civilization irreconcilable with the conditions of the modern world which are accepted today by Christians as well as secularists? Certainly there can be no question of a return to the old regime of the alliance between Church and State or the ecclesiastical domination of society. But this does not mean that we can afford to reject the ideal of  a Christian civilization...The kingdom of God is a universal kingdom: there is no aspect of human life that stands outside it or is not in some way tributary to it. It is the nature of Christianity to be a world transforming movement. "  Christopher Dawson, The Historic Reality of Christian Culture  (New York: Harper and Brothers,  1960),  42