Some writers have the ability to combine true spiritual and intellectual depth with practical, down-to-earth guidelines for growth in holiness. This book is an ecu-menically oriented introduction to nine such authors, each discussed in sufficient detail to provide a good idea of the major aspects of their thought in a way calculated to appeal to the general reader. Of the six Catholic au-thors considered, four are men (John Henry Newman, Columba Marmion, Thomas Merton and Teilhard de Chardin) and two are women (Dorothy Day and Caryll Houselander). The others include an Anglican (C.S. Lewis), a Lutheran (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) and a Jewish writer (Abraham Joshua Heschel). In their legacies of prayer, each makes a unique and invaluable contribution to our individual journeys of faith.