A Retreat for Beginners Maritain of what had already been

of what had already been discovered before

After holding a professorship in history at St

Hardcover: 372pp

Russell Kirk (1918–1994) is acknowledged as the founder of the intellectual conservative movement in modern America

(Isaiah 12:3)

A Retreat for Beginners Maritain of what had already beenBy Ronald Knox Monsignor Ronald Knox preached scores, if not hundreds, of retreats. Of these, A Retreat for Beginners is singular: for, in Knoxs own declaration, it is addressed not to a crowd, but to one particular soulto you. The point of a retreat is that God means to do something in and to the soul; God, in this time of quiet, intends to conduct a spring cleaning of sorts in the retreatants spiritual life, illuminating a particular fault,