About Russell Hittinger

F. Rus­sell Hit­tinger is William K. War­ren Pro­fes­sor of Catholic Stud­ies and Re­search Pro­fes­sor of Law at the Uni­ver­sity of Tulsa. His research focuses on the intersection of philosophy, religion, and law. Dr. Hittinger is on the governing council of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is the author of The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World.

The Great His­to­rian of Cul­ture: Christo­pher Daw­son

By |2023-10-25T19:05:58-05:00October 25th, 2023|Categories: Books, Christian Humanism, Christopher Dawson, Timeless Essays|

"Christopher Dawson viewed the disintegration of Western culture as a far worse disaster than that of the fall of Rome," biographer Christina Scott writes. "For the one was material; the other would be a spiritual disaster which would strike directly at the moral foundations of our society and destroy not the outward form of civilization [...]

How Would Christopher Dawson Redeem the West?

By |2023-10-12T05:16:04-05:00October 11th, 2023|Categories: Catholicism, Christendom, Christianity, Christopher Dawson, St. John Henry Newman, Timeless Essays, Western Civilization|

Christopher Dawson held that the Christian religion created a distinctive culture that not only preceded, but has continued long after, the thirteenth century. It is only by examining this cultural dynamism that one can appreciate why modern society is a mutilated, or a “secularized,” version of Christendom. Soren Kierkegaard observed that a distinguishing mark of [...]

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