Word: arbuthnott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was the sixth child of the Anglican Bishop of Manchester (both of his grandfathers had also been Protestant clergymen). Religion began to serve him at the age of 15; when a friend came down with typhoid, Ronnie lived on bread and butter for six weeks. His friend died, and Knox prayed for him 15 minutes each day "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy. At 24, he became the Anglican chaplain of Oxford University's Trinity College...
Died. Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 69, English Roman Catholic convert and scholar; of cancer; in Somerset, England (see RELIGION...
...other occupations of Msgr. Ronald Arbuthnott Knox during the past 30 years have earned him an international reputation as the urbane and witty chaplain-litterateur at Oxford's Trinity College, as the author of both brittle whodunits (The Body in the Silo) and brilliant essays in Roman Catholic theology, and as perhaps the ablest modern translator of the Bible. His new book, three decades in the making ("mastering my authorities in trains, or over solitary meals, taking notes on rough pieces of paper and losing them . . .") is titled Enthusiasm (Oxford; $6). In it, Author Knox brings...