Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
We always stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us. The debt only increases when we attempt to put ideas into print. I have sought to express something of that debt in the references and endnotes for this book. That, of course, only hints at the writers and thinkers and pray-ers who have taught me over many years. Most of them belong to earlier centuries, but I still thank them.
Special appreciation goes to my personal assistant, Lynda Graybeal, who read the entire manuscript as it was being written and made helpful comments and corrections. I want to thank Howard Macy, Nathan Foster, Robert Bolton and Gayle Beebe for helping me track down the sources for various quotations. I thank Terri Taylor for providing details of the Quaker Meadow chapel that I had long ago forgotten. I want to express appreciation to Cindy Bunch, senior editor at InterVarsity Press who originally proposed the idea for this book and took keen interest in its development. Then too, I want to thank all those who showed prayerful concern for this project, and for me, from the first day of writing right up to the end.
Finally, I feel a deep debt to Carolynn, my wife. Throughout the days and nights of writing, Carolynn kept encouraging me, prodding me and engaging in vigorous debate with me over particular words and phrases. She brought to the project a wonderful combination of loving and frustrating tenaciousness. She is the love of my life.