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Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm

Knox, Ronald

Hardcover

General Christianity

ISBN10: 1685953964
ISBN13: 9781685953966
Publisher: Cluny Media
Published: Feb 21 2025
Pages: 648
Weight: 2.24
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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-pelling drama, in which fascinating characters-like St. Paul and Tertullian; Martin Luther and the French Prophets; Madame Guyon and J.-B. Bossuet; Blaise Pascal and François Fénelon; George Fox and John Wesley; and many others-grapple and quarrel as much with themselves and their fellow Christians as with God himself.

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