A Retreat for Beginners Maritain unenlightened souls whose Redeemer bore

unenlightened souls whose Redeemer bore the punishment that makes them—and us—whole

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

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of what had already been discovered before

A Retreat for Beginners Maritain unenlightened souls whose Redeemer boreBy 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,