Abbreviations for Ong’s Books

ACC American Catholic Crossroads: Religious-Secular Encounters in the Modern World (1959)

BW The Barbarian Within, And Other Fugitive Essays and Studies (1962)

FAC Frontiers in American Catholicism: Essays on Ideology and Culture (1957)

FC1 Faith and Contexts: Vol 1, Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991 (1992)

FC2 Faith and Contexts: Vol 2, Supplementary Studies, 1946-1989 (1992)

FC3 Faith and Contexts: Vol. 3, Further Essays 1952-1990 (1995)

FL Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness (1981)

HSG Hopkins, the Self, and God (1986)

IHG In the Human Grain: Further Explorations of Contemporary Culture (1967)

IW Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture (1977)

OL Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982)

PW The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History (1967)

RMDD Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (1958)

RRT Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture (1971)

RTI Ramus and Talon Inventory: A Short-Title Inventory of the Published Works of Peter Ramus (1515-1572) and of Omer Talon (ca. 1510-1562) in Their Original and in Their Variously Altered Forms, with Related Material (1958)

WT Why Talk? A Conversation About Language (1973)