Confessions of a Convert - Couverture souple

Benson, Robert Hugh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1974428834 ISBN 13 : 9781974428830

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

What does it cost a man to follow the truth — even when it costs him everything?

Robert Hugh Benson was no ordinary convert. The son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, ordained an Anglican priest by his own father, and a respected figure in the English religious world, he stood to lose his reputation, his relationships, and his identity. Yet in 1903, he walked into the Catholic Church anyway.

Confessions of a Convert is his unflinching account of that journey — from a comfortable Anglican upbringing where faith was more family tradition than personal conviction, through years of restless searching, to the moment he could no longer deny what he had come to believe was true.

First published in 1913, this classic spiritual memoir traces the doubts, the intellectual battles, and the quiet interior moments that gradually dismantled everything Benson had assumed about God, Church, and authority. Written with remarkable honesty and elegant prose, it remains one of the most compelling conversion accounts ever written.

Praised by Pope Francis. Compared to Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Still speaking to readers over a century later.

For anyone wrestling with questions of faith, tradition, and where truth ultimately leads — this book is essential reading.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

An Autobiography of Fr Robert Hugh Benson's Conversion from the Church of England to the Catholic Church.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1974428834
• ISBN 13: 9781974428830
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124
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