The Persistence of Order, Vol. I Popes a set of principles for

a set of principles for that renewal

let alone Christ’s

“Christ expressly specified love as the most important of all Christian virtues

for a soul’s worth is in direct proportion to the intimacy and intensity of its relations with God

The Persistence of Order, Vol. I Popes a set of principles forEdited 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