Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Foreword xv
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Life
8. Ronald Knox and the Great War 23
9. Ronald Knox and the Benedictines 36
10. The Friendship of Evelyn Waugh and Ronald Knox 52
11. Ronald Knox at Mells: 1947–1957 63
12. Ronald Knox’s Two Recording Angels 75
13. Writings by Ronald Knox and Other Documents
14. An Apologia (1917) 97
15. Unpublished Preface to A Spiritual Aeneid (1917) 99
16. The Benedictines of Caldey (1940) 103
17. Panegyric for Abbot Matthews at the Requiem (1939) 108
18. Correspondence between Derek Worlock and Evelyn Waugh (1959) 112
19. Monsignor Ronald Knox 119
20. Letters to and Recollections by Former Pupils (1947–1957) 125
21. Encomium for Monsignor Knox 140
22. Part II: Works
23. Ronald Knox as Classicist 147
24. Ronald Knox as Writer of Fiction 166
25. Ronald Knox as Translator of the Bible 185
26. Ronald Knox and the Old Testament 202
27. Ronald Knox and Liturgy 216
28. The Spirituality of Ronald Knox 232
29. Enthusiasm: The Continuing Lure of Emotional Religion 253
30. Was Ronald Knox a Theologian? 270
31. Ronald Knox and Humour in the Service of God 288
32. Further Writings by Ronald Knox
33. Letters to Richard Rawstorne (1913–1914) 307
34. A Collection of Prayers (1914) 317
35. A Sermon Preached at St Mary’s, Graham Street (1915) 323
36. Our Need of Easter (1929) 326
37. Twenty Years After (1937) 331
38. The Prayer of Acts and the Prayer of Stupidity (1939) 337
39. Virgil and the Future Life (1941) 349
40. Spiritual Reading (1956) 355
41. Appendix: Uses of the Aeneid in A Spiritual Aeneid 361
42. Contributors 371
43. Index 374