... Ronald Knox, one of the finest Catholic apologists and authors of the past century. Fr. Walsh is the author of Ronald Knox as Apologist: Wit, Laughter and the Popish Creed; he is also a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, wrote his dissertation on Ronald Knox and is a longtime reader and researcher of the works of Knox. He will be on Catholic Answers Live from 4:00-5:00 (Pacific). Go here for more info and here to listen live online. Here is more about Fr. Walsh's recently published book:
NEW: Ronald Knox as Apologist: Wit, Laughter and the Popish Creed
Fr. Milton Walsh
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, both as an Anglican and
as a Roman Catholic, Ronald Knox was a well-known part of the English
literary landscape. He was a favored preacher for occasions great and
small; his articles on a host of topics found a place in the newspapers
and monthly literary magazines; his voice was heard often on the BBC.
Most significant was the tide of books that flowed from his pen and
found a wide readership in Great Britain and the USA.
In this book, Milton Walsh, an expert on Knox's writing, has
analyzed and provided ample quotations from the most significant
writings of Knox that fall under the genre of apologetics. Knox was a
superb apologist because as a priest he was a man of deep faith, and as
a writer he had a wonderful way of expressing the Christian truths in
an elegant and clear language. Knox was also a man with a grand sense
of humor and a keen wit, as well as empathy and kindness, and both his
humor and charity are captured well in these writings. Ronald Knox
stands alongside G. K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and Evelyn Waugh as a
great spiritual and literary British writer whose works are once again
receiving wide readership and appreciation.
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