The English Catholic historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) famously believed that ours is a “sub-philosophical” age. Despite the great successes of philosophers and theologians working to teach and popularize the work of St. Thomas Aquinas from the time of Pope Leo XIII in the 1890s until the Second Vatican Council, Dawson believed that what was required for a true evangelization and catechesis was something more than a display of the intellectual coherence and sublimity of Catholic doctrine and thought…