Thomas Howard

IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO

First published by Thomas Nelson, inc.
Nashville, Tennessee

Cover photograph:
Santa Croce Church
Florence, Italy
© Jim Zuckerman / Corbis

Cover design by Roxanne Mei Lum

© 1984 by Thomas Howard

All rights reserved
ISBN 978-0-89870-221-7
Library of Congress catalogue number 88-81820
Printed in the United States of America

Dedications are ordinarily made to one person, sometimes two. I would like to break with that convention in this one instance and dedicate my book to the following multitude. Some of them would not at all want their names associated with a single one of the ideas expressed in the book, and I absolve them entirely. Remember, this is only a dedication, not a board of reference.

There are some mightily strange bedfellows here, but all share at least two things. First, all of them confess our Lord Jesus Christ with a clarity and fidelity that is more than heartening to a fellow-Christian, and all are serious about being faithful to the ancient Faith, which He committed to His apostles and which has been witnessed to by those apostles, and by martyrs, confessors, doctors, widows, virgins, and all the great company of the faithful for two thousand years now. Second, whether they themselves know it or not (and many of them have never heard of me, and some are dead), I owe each one some debt in the Faith.

I would like, then, to make this dedication:

To John Henry Newman, Ronald Knox, Maurice Zundel, and Romano Guardini: my Roman Catholic tutors.

To Alexander Schmemann, Kallistos Ware, and Georges Florovsky: my tutors in holy Orthodoxy.

To Lancelot Andrewes, George Herbert, Gregory Dix, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, J. I. Packer, John Stott, Mark Dyer, and Jeffrey Steenson: Anglican witnesses to the Faith.

To my former students James Gurley, Harold Fickett, John Skillen, Michael Barwell, and Dan Ohman: they fill me with hope.

To Philip E. Howard, Jr., Joseph Bayly, David Wells, Gerald Hawthorne, and the missionaries of the China Inland Mission: these embody the evangelical integrity I honor.

To the bishops of the Evangelical Orthodox Church: At enormous cost they have staked everything for the sake of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church for which I pray daily.