The Persistence of Order (Vols. I, II, and III)

Edited by Christopher Dawson and T. F. Burns The Persistence of Order (Vols. I, II, and III) In 1931, preeminent historian and scholar Christopher Dawson commissioned a new series (titled Essays in Order), whose purpose was, in part, “to examine the possibilities of cooperation and of conflict that exist between the Catholic order and the new world.” The world was “passing through one of the most critical moments in its history,” and those who hold to and hand on the Catholic faith must respond to the moment with “moral sympathy and intellectual comprehension.” Thus Dawson engaged the leading voices of the Catholic academy and literary circles to develop a renaissance of Catholic thought in the face of a darkening age. Volume I: Jacques Maritain, “Religion and Culture”; Peter Wust, “Crisis in the West”; Ida Friederike Coudenhove, “Nature of Sanctity”; and Christopher Dawson, “Christianity and the New Age.” Volume II: Christopher Dawson, “The Modern Dilemma”; Rudolf Allers, “The New Ps