The Night is Far Spent: A Treasury of Thomas HowardIgnatius Press, 2007 M01 1 - 355 pages This anthology of the best of Thomas Howard covers many topics of interest. From litergical reform and sacred architecture, women's ordination and hierachical authority, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien - These and many other topics are tackled by Howard with his characteristic thoughfulness in these articles and speeches that span more than twenty years of his prolific career. |
Contents
On Fictions and Gospel | 3 |
Beowulf and Company | 13 |
Of Towers and Wardrobes | 25 |
S Lewis and the Sanctified Imagination | 39 |
The Life and Legacy of C S Lewis | 56 |
The Wages of Reading | 74 |
Brideshead Revisited Revisited | 82 |
Ave Muggeridge | 96 |
A Portrait of Dietrich von Hildebrand | 108 |
Light on Charles Williams | 125 |
A Note on T | 134 |
Let Us Purify the Dialect of the Tribe | 145 |
The Catholic Angler | 154 |
The Power of Wise Custom | 175 |
The Image of the Cross | 184 |
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