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Tables of Contents for The Medium and the Light
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction
ix
Eric McLuhan
Part I Conversion
G. K. Chesterton: A Practical Mystic
3
11
``The Great Difficulty About Truth'': Two Letters to Elsie McLuhan
14
10
``Spiritual Acts'': Letter to Corinne Lewis
24
9
Part II The Church's Understanding of Media
Communication Media: Makers of the Modern World
33
12
Keys to the Electronic Revolution: First Conversation with Pierre Babin
45
9
The De-Romanization of the American Catholic Church
54
3
``Our Only Hope Is Apocalypse''
57
9
``The Logos Reaching Across Barriers'': Letters to Ong, Mole, Maritain, and Culkin
66
9
International Motley and Religious Costume
75
4
Electric Consciousness and the Church
79
10
``A Peculiar War to Fight'': Letter to Robert J. Leuver, C.M.E
89
5
Religion and Youth: Second Conversation with Pierre Babin
94
13
Part III Vatican II, Liturgy, and tie Media
Liturgy and the Microphone
107
10
Liturgy and Media: Do Americans Go to Church to Be Alone?
117
19
``Achieving Relevance'': Letters to Mole and Sheed
136
5
Liturgy and Media: Third Conversation with Pierre Babin
141
12
Part IV Tomorrow's Church
Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters
153
22
The Christian in the Electronic Age
175
3
Wyndham Lewis: Lemuel in Lilliput
178
20
The God-Making Machines of the Modern World
198
3
Confronting the Secular: Letter to Clement McNaspy, S.J.
201
2
Tomorrow's Church: Fourth Conversation with Pierre Babin
203
8
Appendix 1 Note on Thomas Nashe
211
4
Appendix 2 Editors' Note on Newman, Eliot, and Tradition
215