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Enthusiasm

by Ronald Knox

  • Hardback
  • 648 pages
  • Publisher: Cluny Media
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 4 cm

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For history students and thoughtful believers

Explains the dangers of religious fanaticism

Gain wisdom for identifying truth in the Church

A penetrating examination of religious enthusiasm and its often turbulent impact on the history of the Church.

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Enthusiasm, in the religious sense, is more akin to fanaticism than fervor. As Monsignor Ronald Knox describes, it is that recurring situation in Church history in which men and women, seek to be less and less "of the world" and more and more attentive to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Their assumption is audacious yet simple: grace does not perfect nature; it destroys and replaces it. The inevitable result: separation, secession, schism. In twenty-three informative and entertaining chapters, Knox presents various enthusiastic movements: the first-century Corinthians, Montanists, Donatists, Albigenses, the Reformation sects, Jansenists, Quietists, Convulsionaries, Quakers, and Methodists-with special reference to those episodes from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Under Knox's perceptive pen, religious history is interpreted as com

  • Title

    Enthusiasm

  • Author

    Ronald Knox

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cluny Media

  • Published

    February 2025

  • Weight

    1017g

  • Page Count

    648

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781685953966

  • ISBN-10

    1685953964

  • Eden Code

    7265299