University & Various Sermons - Softcover

Knox, Ronald

9781685954338: University & Various Sermons

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ISBN 10: 1685954332 ISBN 13: 9781685954338

Publisher: Cluny, 2025

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The sermons of Ronald Knox, in Evelyn Waugh’s estimation, contain the very best of his literary talent and pastoral sensibility. “Prepared, revised and rehearsed with every refinement of taste and skill,” the sermons convey their instruction simply and directly: refreshingly conversational in tone, faithfully and knowledgeably reliant on Sacred Scripture, and profoundly powerful in content, allusion, and spiritual consolation. University Sermons comprises a host of examples of this excellent preaching: the two books of his Oxford conferences (previously published in In Soft Garments and The Hidden Stream); twenty-eight previously uncollected sermons, delivered to various congregations, on topics ranging from Scripture and the sacraments to Divine Mercy and devotion to Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints; and fourteen of his Anglican sermons, each of which sheds light on Knox’s mind and heart as he drew near to fulfilling his lifelong desire of “membership in the body of people which Jesus Christ left to succeed Him when He was taken up from the earth”: by entering the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

Like its companions in Pastoral Sermons and Occasional Sermons, Knox’s University & Various Sermons are compositions of great care and beauty that unfailingly instruct and dispose the faithful to know and love the Lord and his commandments.

The love of Christ, St. Paul tells us, is to bring our intellects into captivity; there are not many wise, not many mighty, that take a high place in the kingdom of heaven. Yet he is careful to claim that there is something to be said for cultivating our mental powers. We are to be innocent, not ignorant; in understanding we must be men. (Ronald Knox)

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