The Historic Reality of Christian Culture

In this discussion, three historians - Drs. Joseph T. Stuart and Margaret Mary Summers and Mr. Mike Aquilina - explore the six ages of Western Christian culture as sketched out by Christopher Dawson in his 1960 book The Historic Reality of Christian Culture: A Way to the Renewal of Human Life. Their conversations feature quotations from primary documents from each age.

• First Age: Early Christian Culture and the Clash with the Roman Empire (1 – ca. 300)
• Second Age: The Age of the Church Fathers (ca. 300 – ca. 650)
• Third Age: The Making of Europe (ca. 650 – ca. 1000)
• Fourth Age: Medieval Christendom (ca. 1000 – ca. 1500)
• Fifth Age: Breakout from Christendom (ca. 1500 - 1789)
• Sixth Age: The Modern World (1789 – today)

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