To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best I came across The Dynamic Character of Christian Culture: essays on Dawsonian themes in the 1980s; its ideas underpin many of my own in the area of a theology of culture.At the age of 19, on a visit to Rome, the Yorkshire-born Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) had a mystical experience which changed his life. He decided to dedicate his studies to the understanding of the relationship between religion and culture.For Dawson, the dynamic of human history is not economics. He offered a theo-dramatic vision of history in which the Catholic Church and her culture, for better or worse, in glory and in disgrace