The Creed in Slow Motion
Overview
During the WWII bombing of London, Ronald Knox—a priest, radio personality, detective novelist, scholar, and Catholic convert—found himself the chaplain of a girls’ school where students were being sheltered. When his existing homilies were exhausted, Knox began to write new ones for his students based on the Apostles’ Creed. The homilies were so well-received that they were later published as The Creed in Slow Motion.
With resurgent interest in the life and writings of Knox, as well as the changes to the English translation of the Creed, the new edition of this classic could not be more timely. Knox’s unpacking of the Apostles’ Creed provides an accessible, loving, and witty example of Anglo-Catholic thought at its best.
Key Features
- Contains brief reflections on each section of the Apostles’ Creed
- Addresses challenging questions and dilemmas
- Combines intellectual depth and imaginative presentation
Contents
- I Believe in God (1)
- I Believe in God (2)
- The Father Almighty
- Maker of Heaven and Earth
- And in Jesus Christ
- His Only Son
- Our Lord
- Conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary
- He Suffered
- Under Pontius Pilate
- Was Crucified
- Dead and Buried
- Descendit ad Inferos
- The Third Day He Rose Again from the Dead
- He Ascended into Heaven, Sitteth at the Right Hand of God
- From Thence He Shall Come to Judge the Living and the Dead
- I Believe in the Holy Ghost (1)
- I Believe in the Holy Ghost (2)
- I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church (1)
- I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church (2)
- I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church (3)
- I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church (4)
- The Communion of Saints (1)
- The Communion of Saints (2)
- The Forgiveness of Sins (1)
- The Forgiveness of Sins (2)
- I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body, and the Life Everlasting
Top Highlights
“Of all the silly things on which the modern world prides itself, the silliest, I think, is its habit of not believing in things. Nothing is easier than not believing in things.” (Page 4)
“They are unable to deny these truths, but these truths don’t form part of the framework of their minds. To believe a thing, in any sense worth the name, means something much more than merely not denying it. It means focusing your mind on it, letting it haunt your imagination, caring, and caring desperately, whether it is true or not.” (Pages 5–6)
“So it is with the Credo; each of us, in lonely isolation, makes himself or herself responsible for that tremendous statement, ‘I believe in God.’” (Pages 2–3)
“When God creates, something which had only been a thought in his mind takes shape on the canvas of real existence.” (Page 29)
“Belief isn’t just a matter of the intellect, isn’t just a matter of the will; it is an activity of the whole man.” (Page 9)
Praise for the Print Edition
Ronald Knox will instruct, edify, and challenge you.
—Rev. Milton Walsh, author of Second Friends: C.S. Lewis and Ronald Knox in Conversation
Through an odd set of circumstances, Msgr. Ronald Knox found himself chaplain to a group of high school girls during the Second World War. To these teenagers, he preached a series of sermons on the Creed, and they are a miracle of clarity, simplicity, depth, and spiritual perception. This edition will prove invaluable to anyone interested in preaching, catechesis, and apologetics. Knox’s essays are a model of how to proclaim the faith boldly and intelligently.
—Rev. Robert Barron, author of The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism
Product Details
- Title: The Creed in Slow Motion
- Author: Ronald Knox
- Publisher: Ave Maria Press
- Publication Date: 2009
- Pages: 256
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Apostles’ Creed
About Ronald Knox
Monsignor Ronald Knox (1888–1957) was born in Leicestershire, England, to a leading Anglican family and was educated at Eton and Balliol. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and was made chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford. In 1917 Knox converted to Catholicism, a decision heavily influenced by his close friendship with G. K. Chesterton. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1918 and in 1936 was commissioned by the English Catholic hierarchy to translate the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible into contemporary English. Knox died on August 24, 1957, and was buried in Westminster Cathedral.