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Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (17 February 1888 – 24 August 1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, author, and radio broadcaster. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a high reputation as a classicist, Knox was ordained as a priest of the Church of England in 1912.
Ronald Knox (born Feb. 17, 1888, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire, Eng.—died Aug. 24, 1957, Mells, Somerset) was an English author, theologian, and dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church, best known for his translation of the Bible.
Dec 28, 2022 · 10 Things to Know about Ronald Knox. Chaplain, accidental creator of Sherlock Holmes studies, mystery novelist, and Christian apologist - Ronald Knox did more by age 35 than most people do in a lifetime. Here is what you need to know about this surprising man and his legacy.
Apr 1, 2023 · In the star-studded firmament of Eton and Oxford before World War I, Ronald Knox’s light shone among the brightest. And while today his reputation rests on other works, he wrote some of the cleverest Greek and Latin verse that I’ve ever seen.
Aug 21, 2021 · One excellent guide to sharing the Church’s faith in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is Msgr. Ronald A. Knox (1888-1957). Knox, an English priest and apologist, was one of the Church’s most ...
Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a Roman Catholic priest, theologian, author of detective stories, as well as a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio. Knox had attended Eton College and won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford.
C. S. Lewis called him "the wittiest man in Europe," and Ronald Knox was a deft apologist, an astute translator of the Bible, and the preacher for occasions great and small throughout the first half of the twentieth century in England. Born in 1888, as the sixth child of the Anglican Bishop of Manchester, he grew up in what he called "that form ...
Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English Catholic priest, theologian, author, and radio broadcaster. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a high reputation as a classicist, Knox was ordained as a priest of the Church of England in 1912.
Msgr. Ronald Knox. FATHER GEORGE W. RUTLER. While more reserved than G. K. Chesterton, they were close friends, and what Msgr. Ronald Knox preached in Westminster Cathedral after the death of his hero in 1936 describes himself, too.
Monsignor Ronald Knox. 1888-1957. The path that led him to enter into full communion with the Church at the age of twenty-nine prepared him for his special ministry of preaching and his prolific writings that remain a treasury of wisdom to this day.
