William Luse, who's always worth a visit, commented on the entry on Rev. John Keble below that The story of that movement, and the great light that came of it (Cardinal Newman, among others) is dear to me.



I'm glad to say that it's one of many opinions on which we're in agreement, and that most visitors here share the devotion. A good occasion, then, to recommend a rich and perceptive little book, re-issued last year by the Saint Austin Press.



T.S. Eliot thought Christopher Dawson perhaps the most influential man in all of Britain. Dom David Knowles wrote that in his field [he] was the most distinguished Catholic thinker of the century. Frank Sheed said that Dawson may not have known everything, but there was nothing that you could count on his not knowing.



There was certainly no subject that Christopher Dawson didn't illuminate in his writing, and The Spirit of the Oxford Movement is one of the many gems among his works. Here's a review of the re-issued volume by Robert Royal in Crisis.