A Spiritual Aeneid Edwin O'Connor and the Economy of Salvation

and the Economy of Salvation in Luke’s Gospel (Mohr Siebeck)

By marrying biography to literary appreciation

written under the direction of his mentor Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

as “a man in whom the decision for Christ and genuine worldly greatness lay in bitter struggle

A Spiritual Aeneid Edwin O'Connor and the Economy of SalvationBy Ronald Knox As Ronald Knox was preparing to enter the Catholic Church, he took with him, as a spiritual reading traveling companion, Virgils Aeneid. The physical journey of Aeneas toward Rome provided a well polished mirror to the spiritual voyage of Knox to that other, perfect Romethe Eternal City of Christendom. Ingeniously constructed on the Virgillian frame, as Evelyn Waugh writes in his Foreword, A Spiritual Aeneid is Knoxs account of his