Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cunningham, Lawrence S

Titel

Religion booknotes

Ist Teil von

• Commonweal, 2010, Vol.137 (1), p.26

Ort / Verlag

New York: Commonweal Foundation

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• An adult convert from the Church of England, Knox served for a time as chaplain to Catholic students at Oxford, but, beginning in the late 1930s, he was (rather like the poet Rilke) a more-or-less permanent house guest of the gentry - though not an idle guest: he worked prodigiously as a translator (of the whole Bible), biblical commentator, and indefatigable apologist for the Catholic faith. Apart from his translation of the Bible, he is perhaps best known for his book Enthusiasm, a careful study of the religious movements that, in Knox's judgment, put too much emphasis on personal religious experience.