A Retreat for Beginners Maritain of what had already been

of what had already been discovered before

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

surveying (1) the “Daughters of the Reformation”—Lutherans and Calvinists

After holding a professorship in history at St

(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,