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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Professors Darryl Gless, Norm Jones, and Richard Mallette read earlier drafts of the entire manuscript. Their kindness made me a more careful author; their criticism made this a better book. Parts of it profited from reviews and remarks by Kristin Bezio, Barbara Hanrahan, John Headley, Ritchie Kendall, Peter Lake, and Albert Rabil Jr. At Albion College, Samford University, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Richmond, my student and faculty colleagues have coaxed me to be more intelligent and more intelligible.

Jerry Brauer and Bernie McGinn, at the start, suggested that I might make a contribution as a historical theologian. Early on—but closer to the start than to the finish—Professors Stephen Greenblatt and Debora Shuger suggested that this historical theologian might usefully poach in a field leagues away from his training ground. I hope they are not terribly displeased by the results.

To list all the other sources of encouragement and inspiration would tax the patience of two of them at the Pennsylvania State University Press, Patrick Alexander and Kathryn Yahner. Begging the pardon of all those unmentioned, I cannot proceed responsibly without also naming Joanne Ciulla, Don Forsyth, Clark and Nancy Gilpin, Al Goethals, Gill Hickman, Crystal Hoyt, Roger Kaufman, Gary McDowell, Shirley Ort, Stephanie Paulsell, Sandra Peart, Terry Price, Kerstin Soderlund, Thad Williamson, and Tom Wren. Julie Schoelles, at the press, expertly scrubbed the manuscript and gently spared its maker many embarrassments.

This book is dedicated to Len, Miles, Rob, and Scott with gratitude for a friendship that has lasted for just under fifty years. They will be happy that this eagle has landed with less fuss than the last.