{"product_id":"the-belief-of-catholics-cluny","title":"The Belief of Catholics","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 262 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd people go round saying,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e‘At least Catholics know what they believe,\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e” sarcastically remarks Charles Ryder of Evelyn Waugh’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e. With\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Belief of Catholics\u003c\/i\u003e, Ronald Knox offers a stirring\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ecredo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewhich puts the sarcasm of his friend and biographer Waugh’s protagonist in its proper place. Building up the vast, intricate structure of Catholic doctrine from its foundation to its summit, Knox begins with a scrutiny of modernity’s ill-founded aversion to religion and then proceeds, in measured, memorable style, to address those “essential and unavoidable” questions to which religion must provide the answers. Does God exist? Does he reveal himself to humanity? Is a loving relationship between God and human beings a myth or a reality? Is the Catholic Church what it claims to be: the means and end of salvation as promised by Jesus Christ?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe ethos of Catholics is not futuristic; they live, not on dreams, but on convictions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Ronald Knox)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCelebrated since its first appearance in 1927 as a classic in Catholic apologetics,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Belief of Catholics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers a clear, stimulating, and persuasive presentation of orthodoxy. As a challenge to skeptics and a restorative for believers, Knox’s work is the genuine article: the expression of the faith, freely received as it was freely given, ringing with the all the courage of one man’s unflagging conviction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185744474393,"sku":"TBOC-CM","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/71Umgl_S3-L._SL1500.jpg?v=1775014134","url":"https:\/\/www.fidelitybooks.com.au\/products\/the-belief-of-catholics-cluny","provider":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","version":"1.0","type":"link"}