Faith and Prayer collects two separate conferences given at Oxford by the esteemed Irish Dominican Vincent McNabb. These pages, as noted in the Preface, show McNabb “in his most natural environment.” Part I addresses such matters as faith in an age of entrenched skepticism, the relationship between faith and authority, and the meaning and measure of life lived in the light of faith. Part II treats the nature and types of prayer, the theology and the psychology of prayer, and the practice of prayer and the avoidance of distraction. Delivered early in his career, the conferences of Faith and Prayer represent McNabb’s most erudite and formal preaching, an almost peerless unity of scholarship and spiritual depth. Consistent, however, with his later, more popular preaching, is the book’s central concern: the indomitable desire that all people would enter and enjoy the invigorating, loving presence of God.