This is a collection of fifty-one letters written between February 1982, and February 2001. They were written by a semi-reclusive bachelor now (2001) sixty-five years of age and having no formal education beyond high school. Notwithstanding that lack of schooling, his mental ability has been outstanding enough to have allowed him to exchange a letter or two with such notables as Carl Gustav Jung, Carl Sagan, and F. Scott Peck.
There's some small talk about life's commonplace problems; but for the most part, the letters deal with many of the classical questions raised by theology, ethics, epistemology (i.e.: the theory of knowledge), depth psychology, and cosmology. Some of the issues spelled out in these pages are: (1) how love could lead God to create an eternal hell and a world riddled with pain; (2) how the damned wind up in hell as a natural and welcome consequence of their actions rather than as a punishment forced upon them by an "omnipotent ogre in the skies;" (3) The Incarnation's dramatic effect upon the meaning of "God;" (4) free will; (5) the nature of knowledge and certitude; (6) kinds of necessity; (7) the love of dialectical vs. the love of empirical knowledge; (8) the meaning of faith; (9) how love of dialectics affects the capacity to have faith; (10) the hidden motivation common to all human beings; (11) how that hidden motivation renders most of us far more infatuated with dialectical than with empirical knowledge; (12) the two opposed kinds of self-esteem; (13) violence against abortionists; (14) happiness; (15) the importance of drive versus that of a high I. Q.; and (16) sanctity according to St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Haas.
However technical these letters may be at times, they are, at other times, highly personal letters in which the author reveals the depths of his heart as well as the labyrinthine paths of his mind. The author, an extremely passionate man, is second to none in exposing his entire self to the light.
The individuals addressed by these letters range from college professors to criminals serving time in prison. None were below twenty years of age, and some were over sixty. Possibly, then most adults will find something in these letters of interest to them.