Awake in Heaven [antikvár]

FOREWORD This book is for the most part an adaptation of material provided by broadcast talks and other addresses. These were given at different times and on various occasions; nevertheless they do, I think, form a unity, a single argument with some necessary elucidations and applications. The substance of the argument will be found in Part II, which comprises three talks given in the recent B.B.C. series. What is Man? But there were a number of points which could only be touched on in the talks, and many things had to be assumed; so that it scem.ed useful to add the other chapters by way of explication. The substance of chapters I and XII-XIII was also provided by broadcast talks; chapters V-VIII are adaptations of conferences given at the University Chaplaincy, Oxford; in substance, chapter IX was originally an address given at a Religion and Life Week in Rugby, and chapters X and XI make use of papers read to the Plater Dining Club, London, and to the Society for Education in Art at Oxford, respectively. Finally, Appendix B is in substance a paper read to the Aquinas Society, Oxford. The remaining Appendix A is made up from articles previously published in Blackfriars. Moreover, in substance, chapter IX was originally published in Orate Fratres (U.S.A.); chapter X in the Irish Rosary; chapter XI in Art Notes; and chapters XII-XIII in Blackfriars; the latter chapter also incorporates some material from an article in the Bulletin of the Sword of the Spirit. To the editors of these reviews I wish to express my gratitude for their kindness in allowing me to make use of this material for my present purposes.