Become Like the Angels

Acknowledgments

[vii] Acknowledgments I would like first of all to thank Susan Wessel and Matthias Vorwerk of the Catholic University of America for their invaluable assistance in research, as well as for serving on the dissertation committee that was the start of this project. John A.McGuckin and Fr. Joseph T.Lienhard, S.J., provided thoroughly helpful reviews of the entire manuscript. Finally, my own colleague, Edward Macierowski , assisted me with Greek and Latin transliterations. We may entertain the hope that by a virtuous life, and by acting in all things agreeably to reason, we may rise to a likeness with all these; that men, when made perfect, become like the angels.                —Against Celsus 4, 29 ...