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...Ronald Knox...
...years, in the midst of his other work, Knox labored lovingly on a history of Christian sectarianism, "mastering my authorities in trains, or over solitary meals, taking notes on rough pieces of paper and losing them." He titled the work Enthusiasm, and described the typical "enthusiastic" movement as beginning with "an elite of Christian men and (more importantly) women" trying to live closer to the Holy Spirit than their neigh- bors. "More and more, by a kind of fatality, you see them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while...
Face to Face. About 18 months ago, Ronald Knox, working on a translation of the Autobiography of Ste. Therese of Lisieux, began to feel poorly. In January he had surgery for cancer of the intestine, and the doctors found the disease so far advanced that his condition was hopeless. But before he had known how ill he was, Knox had accepted an invitation to deliver the prestigious Romanes Lecture at Oxford in June. He was still determined...
Frail, grey, seated on the dais with a physician hovering in attendance, one of the greatest translators of his day spoke of his art with characteristic modesty, common sense and fun. But behind the gentle, witty deprecation of Ronald Knox's last public words lay his light-filled rendering of the Bible as Catholics may read it generations hence...
Died. Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 69, English Roman Catholic convert and scholar; of cancer; in Somerset, England (see RELIGION...