{"product_id":"a-spiritual-aeneid","title":"A Spiritual Aeneid","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs Ronald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ewas preparing to enter the Catholic Church, he took with him, as a spiritual-reading traveling companion, Virgil’s \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e. The physical journey of Aeneas toward Rome provided a well-polished mirror to the spiritual voyage of Knox to that other, perfect Rome—the Eternal City of Christendom. “Ingeniously constructed on the Virgillian frame,” as Evelyn Waugh writes in his Foreword, \u003ci\u003eA Spiritual Aeneid\u003c\/i\u003e is Knox’s account of his conversion from the Anglican Church to the one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church. And the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e is the template par excellence for a conversion account—in Knox’s own words: “An \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e involves not merely coming home, but coming home to a place you have never been in before—one that combines in itself all that you valued in the old home with added promises of a future that is new. In an \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e…you may be driven from your course; but, to crown the sense of adventure, in an \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e you do not even know where your port lies; you must make experiments, hark back to beginnings, throw yourself upon a celestial guidance.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf you can steadily face all this mountain of assertion about the greatness of God in comparison with man, you may be a Catholic yet—but can you? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(Ronald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAs moving and memorable today as when it first appeared in 1918, \u003ci\u003eA Spiritual Aeneid\u003c\/i\u003e endures as the “essential introduction” to Monsignor Ronald Knox, a devoted servant to the One who makes all things new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Best known for his contemporary English translation of the Scriptures (the “Knox Bible”), he wrote numerous works of apologetics and collections of ser­mons, retreat conferences, and lectures, as well as six detective novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951481\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51320585257248,"sku":"978-1685951481","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/3678\/2112\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--7586.jpg?v=1773076014","url":"https:\/\/treewee.store\/products\/a-spiritual-aeneid","provider":"Tree of Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}