Farrell, Thomas2022-03-252022-03-252022-03This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/226717See the above abstract.In my 2,400-word review essay "Nick Ripatrazone's 2022 Book on Marshall McLuhan, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight (1) the thought of the young American Catholic journalist Nick Ripatrazone in his new 2022 160-page book Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan's Vision for a Virtual Age (Minneapolis: Fortress Press); (2) the life and thought of the Canadian Catholic convert and Renaissance specialist and media ecology theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980; Ph.D. in English, Cambridge University, 1943); and (3) the life and thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955).enMarshall McLuhan, Walter J. Ong, Nick Ripatrazone, Pierre Teilhard de ChardinScholarly Text or Essay