In his Twentieth-Century Men of Prayer, Mark Gibbard has already shown how we can be helped in our search for a way of prayer by other men and women of our century. In this new book, he looks for guidance from earlier in history, from as far back as the psalmists and the New Testament. Here, then, are brief introductions to Mother Julian and the writer of the Cloud of Unknowing, Ignatius Loyola and Teresa of Avila, Francis de Sales, Vincent de Paul, Henry Vaughan, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Rufus Jones and Bede Griffiths, Through them. Fr. Gibbard shows ways in which our own prayer can be deepened.