recorded thankfully without the ascription to them, in any case, of
responsibility for what I have finally said or done.

For readings of the manuscript in its virtual integrity, though in
an earlier draft, I signalize the services of my colleagues in Duke
University, Robert E. Cushman and Howard E. Jensen. For readings
and advices over a period of years, almost the whole of the Duke Di-
vinity School faculty is hereby recognized. My gratitude is deeply
felt for the assistance of Donn Michael Farris, librarian of the Di-
vinity School, and of his associates, Miss Joyce Lockhart and Miss
Doralyn Hickey. My obligation to the combined staffs of the Duke
University Libraries is heartfelt. My further thanks to American and
European libraries for extended use and checking facilities must stop
short of individual designation.

I acknowledge, for its having stood in a position of uniquely val-
uable assistance, the Duke University Research Council with its
senior officers, John Tate Lanning and Walter M. Nielsen.

For stenographic and secretarial services I wish to remember, espe-
cially, Mrs. Howell H. Lewis, Mrs. John Davis, Mrs. Donald
Roettger, Mrs. Louis Hodges, and Miss Jacqueline Harper. In a dis-
tinct category of appreciation for assistance in a crucial period, I
remember my niece, Dr. Joanne E. Mertz. To my wife, who has never
been anything less than a full collaborator, I must say the least ade-
quate thanks simply because it is to her I owe the most.

The following acknowledgments are made to publishers from
whose works I have had generous permission to quote: The West-
minster Press for selections from my book No Uncertain Sound,
copyright 1948; Theology Today for my article "Christian Escha-
tology and Social Thought" in the July, 1948, issue; the Mediaeval
Academy of America for my article "Mediaeval Eschatology and So-
cial Responsibility in Bernard of Morval's De Contemptu Mundi" in
Speculum, April, 1949.

RAY C. PETRY

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