| Introduction | p. vii |
| Preface to the 1978 edition | p. xxxi |
| Introduction to the 1958 edition | p. xli |
| Toward a Sociology of History | |
| The Sociological Foundations of History | |
| The Sources of Culture Change | p. 3 |
| Sociology as a Science | p. 13 |
| Sociology and the Theory of Progress | p. 35 |
| Civilization and Morals | p. 47 |
| Progress and Decay in Ancient and Modern Civilization | p. 57 |
| Art and Society | p. 71 |
| Vitality or Standardization in Culture | p. 79 |
| Cultural Polarity and Religious Schism | p. 85 |
| Prevision in Religion | p. 95 |
| T. S. Eliot on the Meaning of Culture | p. 109 |
| The Movement of World History | |
| Religion and the Life of Civilization | p. 119 |
| The Warrior Peoples and the Decline of the Archaic Civilization | p. 137 |
| The Origins of Classical Civilization | p. 157 |
| The Patriarchal Family in History | p. 165 |
| Stages in Mankind's Religious Experience | p. 175 |
| Urbanism and the Organic Nature of Culture | |
| The Evolution of the Modern City | p. 199 |
| Catholicism and the Bourgeois Mind | p. 211 |
| The World Crisis and the English Tradition | p. 225 |
| Bolshevism and the Bourgeoisie | p. 237 |
| Conceptions of World History | |
| Christianity and the Meaning of History | |
| The Christian View of History | p. 245 |
| History and the Christian Revelation | p. 263 |
| Christianity and Contradiction in History | p. 275 |
| The Kingdom of God and History | p. 283 |
| The Vision of the Historian | |
| The Problem of Metahistory | p. 303 |
| St. Augustine and the City of God | p. 311 |
| Edward Gibbon and the Fall of Rome | p. 341 |
| Karl Marx and the Dialectic of History | p. 369 |
| H. G. Wells and the Outline of History | p. 381 |
| Oswald Spengler and the Life of Civilizations | p. 389 |
| Arnold Toynbee and the Study of History | p. 405 |
| Europe in Eclipse | p. 419 |
| Afterword: Continuity and Development in Christopher Dawson's Thought | p. 427 |
| Sources | p. 483 |
| Notes | p. 487 |
| Index | p. 503 |
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