The Persistence of Order, Vol. I Sheed Neither rudimentary résumé nor technical

Neither rudimentary résumé nor technical treatise

effective solutions to modern problems of philosophy and theology

and his nephew

we may breathe a pure and invigorating if rather rarefied air

and his intellectual disciples included Josef Pieper

The Persistence of Order, Vol. I Sheed Neither rudimentary résumé nor technicalEdited by Christopher Dawson and T. F. Burns The Persistence of Order, Vol. I 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 Persistence of Order comprises fourteen of those commissioned essays, published across three volumes. Volume I