Ronald Arbuthnott KnoxCríticas

fundamental principles of faith

overview Catholic Faith

In house retreat

history of religion, esp 17th-18th c

from Latin/ref to Hebrew & Grk

continuous narrative & commentary

Translated from Latin at the request of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster

Knox was well-positioned to write a book like this: close enough to Trollope's world to still have a real sense of what it was like, though coloured by a glow of nostalgia which is absent from Trollope (the world of Barsetshire was already on its way out when Trollope wrote, but he is less sentimentally attached to it): the children of the Barsetshire protagonists would have been the generation of Knox's father.

It is not Trollope, though; it is Knox. Trollope was a layman who si times wrote about clerical matters (and clerical matters as an aspect of politics); Knox was an Anglican bishop's son and a Roman Monsignor. There are many more RCs in Knox's Barsetshire (easy to do, as I recall none in Trollope's) and inter-eccesial tensions are a theme developed by Knox which are entirely absent from Trollope. The Higher Criticism, which did not interest Trollope at all, plays a role in one story.

There are points when it feels clever, as Trollope rarely does.

Still, Knox does well at capturing the humane character of the Barsetshire milieu and pulling it forward into the 20th Century; one can with a little effort, feel that it might be authentic, in a way which fails completely in so many continuations of Nineteenth-Century novels.

Every Catholic should read this book. It is an excellent study of each phrase in the Apostles’ Creed. If that sounds boring, I can assure you that it is not. It is intellectually stimulating, even witty at times, and a pleasure to read.

Just okay. This has all the elements that should make a good golden age murder mystery: isolated country inn, witty repartee, locked door murder (or was it suicide?), eccentric characters. Unfortunately it seemed that most of the book was taken up with the two detectives discussing theories of the crime based on what little evidence they had. Over and over and over again.

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Easy to understand and often entertaining, this is Msgr. Knox's explanation of the Creed, phrase by phrase.

Trata sobre temas diversos: el Padrenuestro, las tentaciones de Cristo, el sermón de la Montaña, las parábolas del Reino, el sentido del dolor... Dedica a la Sma. Eucaristía 26 capítulos que proceden de sermones predicados en Londres en sucesivas fiestas del Corpus Christi a partir de 1926, publicados inicialmente bajo el título “The Window in the Wall”. Por su vigor apologético y agudeza, el libro es especialmente recomendable para quienes se encuentran en un ambiente protestante.

Conferencias de apologética a estudiantes católicos de Oxford, desarrolladas con gran agudeza y una fina ironía llena de humor. Trata sobre el conocimiento de Dios, la fe, los milagros, la divinidad de Cristo, las notas de la Iglesia, el pecado, el matrimonio cristiano, la resurrección, etc. Muy útil.

Contiene 18 conferencias o pláticas, para unos días de retiro para sacerdotes, sobre el Sacramento del Orden, el pecado, la Encarnación, la Pasión, el desprendimiento, la Eucaristía, la muerte, la necesidad de la vigilancia, la dignidad del sacerdocio, el infierno, el Oficio divino, la mansedumbre, la oración, la Gracia santificante, la Santísima Virgen... Expone los diversos temas con originalidad y solidez de doctrina, partiendo siempre de una figura o escena de la Sagrada Escritura, con aplicaciones ascéticas muy variadas.

Serie de meditaciones predicadas en diversas ocasiones y ordenadas siguiendo las líneas tradicionales de los cursos de retiro espiritual: creación, pecado, gracia, Vida y Pasión de Nuestro Señor... Aplica cada tema a la vida cristiana ordinaria, procurando fomentar propósitos (rezo del Santo Rosario, trato amigable con la gente, amor a la Cruz, etc). Dirigido a estudiantes universitarios.