Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion

by Ronald A. Knox

Overview

Enthusiasm, first published in 1950 by Ronald A. Knox, is the end product of thirty years of research and inspiration. In his perceptive and learned study Knox presents the personalities and religious philosophies of the various types of enthusiasts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the monatists; donatists; anabaptists; Quakers; Jansenism; quietism; methodism; and other movements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780268009328
Publisher:	University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date:	09/30/1994
Edition description:	1
Pages:	632
Sales rank:	863,110
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

The late Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald A. Knox was Catholic Chaplain at Oxford University from 1926 to 1939 and domestic prelate to His Holiness Pope Pius XII in 1936. He was an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, editor of The Holy Bible: An Abridgement and Rearrangement, as well as translator of both the Old and New Testaments.

Editorial Reviews

One of the great works of the pre-Vatican II Period. An extraordinary stylist and brilliant thinker, Ronald Knox continues to challenge us, even in a wholly new era of the Church’s history.” —Rev. Richard P. McBrien, author of Catholicism

“Knox brings all his wit and scholarship to bear on the many groups in church history which have from time to time bypassed ecclesiastical authority to claim direct contact with the divine.” —Time

“The remarkable feature is the charity [Knox] brings to all his judgments. The chapter on Wesley might have been written by a candid but deeply admiring follower, and that on the Jansenists is a really beautiful piece of work.” —Manchester Guardian

“His story is concerned with personalities rather than movements. [I]t should have a wide appeal.” —Commonweal

“For those who have been wishing they could get their hands on a different kind of Church history, Ronald Knox wrote one. Enthusiasm... [is] remarkably informative and helpful for those classical Protestants who want to reassert the objectivity of the covenant and the importance of the historical church.” —Credenda/Agenda

From the Publisher

One of the great works of the pre-Vatican II Period. An extraordinary stylist and brilliant thinker, Ronald Knox continues to challenge us, even in a wholly new era of the Church’s history.

Rev. Richard P. McBrien