caa a22 4500 388057505 CHVBK 20180307125111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S003419320000248X doi S003419320000248X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S003419320000248X Marshall George Two Autobiographical Narratives of Conversion: Robert Hugh Benson and Ronald Knox [Elektronische Daten] [George Marshall] Ever since the Reformation, and increasingly since the example set by Newman, the Church of England has had to contend with the lure of Rome; in every generation there have been clergymen who converted to the Roman Catholic Church, a group either statistically insignificant or a momentous sign of the future, depending on one's viewpoint. From the nineteenth century Newman and Manning stand out. From the first two decades of the twentieth century among the figures best remembered are Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) and Ronald Arbuthnot Knox (1888-1957). They are remembered, not because they were more saintly or more scholarly than others, but because they were both writers and therefore are responsible for their own memorials. What is more, they both followed Newman in publishing an account of the circumstances of their conversion. This is a genre which continues to hold interest. The two works demonstrate, among other things, the continuing influence of Newman's writings about the identity of the Church. Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1973 Recusant History Cambridge University Press 24/2(1998-10), 237-253 0034-1932 24:2<237 1998 24 BCH https://doi.org/10.1017/S003419320000248X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S003419320000248X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Marshall George NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Recusant History Cambridge University Press 24/2(1998-10), 237-253 0034-1932 24:2<237 1998 24 BCH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge