Farrell, Thomas2024-02-022024-02-022024-02This version has not been published previously.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/260331See the above abstract.In my 2,100-word review essay "John Dear's 2024 Book The Gospel of Peace, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I briefly and succinctly highlight the American diocesan priest Father John Dear's new 2024 400-page book The Gospel of Peace: A Commentary on Mathew, Mark, and Luke from the Perspective of Nonviolence (Orbis Books). Even though Father John Dear says that his new 2024 book grows out of his previous books about nonviolence, he also says that Pope Francis' publications about nonviolence in 2017 and 2022 inspired his to write his new 2024 400-page book. In addition, I briefly and succinctly highlight the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955).enJohn Dear, Walter J. Ong, Thomas J. Farrell, Pope FrancisScholarly Text or Essay