Christopher Dawson
Christopher Henry Dawson (12 October 1889 – 25 May 1970) was a British Catholic historian and independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and argued for the necessity for Western culture to be in continuity with Christianity not to stagnate and deteriorate. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century" and was recognized as being able to expound his thought to "Catholic and Protestant, Christian and non-Christian".