The Creed in Slow Motion
By Ronald Knox The Christian life demands both action and speech. Christians must, in the words of St. James, “live by the word, not content merely to listen to it.” And St. Peter exhorts: “If anyone asks you to give an account of the hope which you cherish, be ready at all times to answer for it.” The “Slow Motion” collections of Monsignor Ronald Knox take up these admonitions and provide indispensable assistance for the proper fulfillment of these Christian duties. Whereas The Mass in Slow Motion endows its readers with a clear vision of the liturgy and their necessary role therein, this volume, The Creed in Slow Motion, equips its readers to confidently articulate their faith. And God made Man did not lose the characteristics of Godhead; he went to work very slowly, for all the world to see that he was God. (Ronald Knox) In the opening sermon, Knox links the Credo to the Confiteor to emphasize the fundamentally personal nature of faith. “It is always Confiteor we say, not Confite